Given that in the labor market women are concentrated in service-sector jobs involving reproductive labor, it can be argued that women have traded unpaid housework for their families for paid housework in the marketplace.

Staples correctly points out that work is inexorably drawn to the home by the pull of unpaid domestic labor, in the sense that by organizing work on a home basis, employers can make it invisible, can undermine workers’ effort to unionize, and drive wages down to a minimum.

Men are able to accept our services and take pleasure in them because they presume that housework is easy for us and that we enjoy it because we do it for their love.

in the present phase of capitalist development, the distinction between production and reproduction has become totally blurred, as work becomes the production of states of being, “affects,” and “immaterial” rather than physical objects.36

In sum, we are too busy performing, too busy pleasing, too afraid of failing, to enjoy making love. The sense of our value is at stake in every sexual relation.

Indeed, as already mentioned, what appears as “autonomy” is most often interiorization of the employers’ needs.

Is bringing coffee to your boss and chatting with him about his marital problems secretarial work or is it a personal favor? Is the fact that we have to worry about our looks on the job a condition of work, or is it the result of female vanity?

The wage and the lack of it have allowed capital to obscure the real length of our working day.

I am interested in building a society in which creativity is a mass condition and not a gift reserved to the happy few, even if half of them are women.