Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Pages: 191-202

Journal: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Volume number: 27

Issue number: 2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9154-7

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 

Despite women's increasing participation in the labour market and attempts to transform the traditional gendered division of work, domestic and care work is still perceived as women's terrain. This work continues to be invisible in terms of the organisation of production or productive value and domestic and care work continues to be unpaid or low paid. Taking domestic and care work as an expression of the feminisation of labour, this article will attempt to complicate this analysis by first exploring a queer critique of feminisation, and second, by situating feminisation within the context of the coloniality of power. Drawing on research conducted in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK on the organisation of domestic work in private households, the article will conclude with some observations on the interconnectedness of feminisation, heteronormativity and the coloniality of power in the analysis of the expansion of precarity in the EU zone.

Harvard Citation style: Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (2014) The Precarity of Feminisation : On Domestic Work, Heteronormativity and the Coloniality of Labour, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 27(2), pp. 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9154-7

APA Citation style: Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (2014). The Precarity of Feminisation : On Domestic Work, Heteronormativity and the Coloniality of Labour. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 27(2), 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-013-9154-7