ABSTRACT
While feminists of the 1960s and 1970s fought to advance the very real need for rights to political representation and equality before the law in employment, income, and education, some also disparaged, inadvertently and not, the domestic roles of mothers and wives and the work this entailed, be it housework or care work. This chapter hopes to return to this debate by looking at publications produced by members of the Second Wave and Women’s Liberation movement to discuss how such a dispossession has contributed to a larger discourse that limits mothers’ and wives’ access to equality as it has reinforced a larger cultural undermining of the value of domestic labor and its associated social, economic, and political contributions.
