ABSTRACT
At the intersection of Marxism and feminism lies a rich and diverse set of perspectives on the question of women, class and the household. In the 1960s and 1970s, an emerging Marxist-feminist scholarship drew upon Engels' analysis to explain women's oppression, but with an important twist. It identified the household not only as a site of reproductive labor but as a site of production itself, where women's unpaid labor made an essential yet neglected contribution to the economy. By the late 1970s another strand of analysis emerged to challenge what was seen as the class-determinist frame of the earlier Marxist-feminist approach. By the late 1980s, there was waning interest in the terms of the domestic labor debate around the role of women's unpaid labor in the capitalist economy and the household and new ways of integrating Marxism and feminism emerged. Rethinking the class system and the gender division of labor is also the project of Wanda Vrasti.
