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Forging a Politics of Care: Theorizing Household Work in the British Women's Liberation Movement

Over the course of the 1970s, feminists in Britain and elsewhere in the West raised questions about the nature of work and criticized the gendered division of labour. They argued that the undervaluing of women’s work lay at the heart of troubled relations between men and women and viewed the transformation of this work as a necessary condition for the formation of new types of intimacy. By the late 1970s British feminists routinely referred to the ‘burden of care’ that seemed to fall automatically to women as the emotional centres of households and called for a rethinking of caring within the home and beyond. The issues of household work, paid employment, and women’s social roles as carers were combined in the crucible of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) as activists sought to challenge women’s status theoretically and politically. By drawing attention to the emotional labour performed by women and to the commodification pervading intimacy, activists in Britain responded and contributed to a shift underway in both the affective and political economies of labour. The highpoint of feminist