ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses work, because to talk about war, means to talk about ways of working: productions, destructions, male ways of working, female ways of working, ways of constructing a reality, consuming a reality, destroying a reality. The female production - giving birth to children and taking care of them, doing housework - appeared under the term of being "reproductions" when thinking about productivity. Sara Ruddick sees the basis of the special female ability tor these Kinds of labor in a woman's capacity of giving birth to a new human being. Giving birth as a form of labor and living has been held in contempt throughout Western history. Western males learned to minimize and fear birthing labor, which should "stand at the center of a maternal history of the flesh." To accept birthing labor as the basic labor would mean accepting women in the godly position of life-giving.
