ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the extent to which feminist theories have neglected analysis of patriarchal labour exploitation and discusses the implications of this conceptual shift. As well as providing a brief account of the early debate on patriarchal exploitation, the chapter addresses how interruption of this debate has given rise to various approaches, two of which are outlined: one subordinating the dynamics of gender oppression to the capitalist system, and another obscuring causality in gender inequality. While the former is associated with the social reproduction approach, theories on varieties of gender regime tend to adopt the latter.
