Reactionary thought explicitly naturalized women’s confinement to housework

Evidence

Housework in fact allows the woman an indefinite escape far from herself. Chardonne rightly remarks: … Here is a meticulous and disordered task, with neither stops nor limits. In the home, a woman certain to please quickly reaches her breaking point, a state of distraction and mental void that effaces her. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1237 (#expands, via linked claim)

Regardless, foregrounding the property that otherwise remains in the background is, perhaps, the most overt entry point into the factory that is influencer culture and how domesticity, when community is subsumed by capital, becomes an alibi for conflating person with property. What we will see, in foregrounding the home, is both the elaborate ownership of production involved in the daily life of an influencer and how the influencer and their home—person and property—have been sutured to assume a coherence between the two. We are not inherently engaging in the pleasure of watching another person and the private intimacy of their body in spaces inaccessible without mediated vision. Rather, we are engaging in the spectacle of consuming images of private property, images of things that have become interchangeable with personhood. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

The convergence of these two factors—participation in production and freedom from reproductive slavery—explains the evolution of woman’s condition. As Engels predicted, her social and political status necessarily had to change. The feminist movement begun in France by Condorcet and in England by Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and followed up at the beginning of the century by the Saint-Simonians, never succeeded for lack of a concrete base. But now women’s claims would have ample weight. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 276 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Housework functions as an endless escape from woman’s own self — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1237; Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 124; Oppression functions by domesticating and submerging consciousness. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 121 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Housework functions as an endless escape from woman’s own self #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1237
• Domesticity is an alibi for conflating person with property #responds-to (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 124
• Entry into production and reproductive freedom drive women’s political emancipation #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 276
• Oppression functions by domesticating and submerging consciousness. #corroborates (0.70) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 121