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I re-formatted Michael's post to make it a bit easier to read./Jerry
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:52:32 -0000
From: Michael Williams <mwilliam@dmu.ac.uk>
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Subject: [OPE-L:2337] Re: the black box of the domestic sphere?
> Mike W responded in [OPE-L:2330:
> > My last published thoughts are incorporated in Value Form and the
> > State (ch. 7, I think)
> With VFS in hand I can see that the "private sphere" is viewed as a
> "separate" sphere from the bourgeois economy but that the two are
> "interdependent for their material reproduction": "there is thus an
> element of value-form determination of the private sphere" (189).
> This, however, does not address the specific characteristics of the
> interdependency between the two spheres.
I'm not sure that there is a great deal to say about this within
specifically Marxist discourse, although surely more than our 'tidying-up'
chapter in VFS. I just am not up to date with the Marxist-Feminist
literature that no doubt does a better job than a ten-year old book. In the
UK, 'Feminist Review' would obviously be a good place to start.
> In particular, it does not
> address the question of the input and output of value to and from the
> private sphere.
Indeed it does not. My last prolonged engagement with this issue was during
the 'domestic labour' debates of the 1970s. These fought themselves to a
standstill, and what I walked away with was a conviction that the family is
not integrated into the value-form determined economy: domestic labour (even
if this is a felicitous term) produces neither surplus-value nor value. It
creates people.
> Thus, while there is not the supposition that the domestic
> sphere "just happens" or that it is a "black box", there isn't a further
> investigation into the specifics of the interdependency.
This is true and acknowledged in the book
btw (referring to footnote 3 on p. 189),
> a) was the Hanlon dissertation completed? If so, when, where, title?
I don't know. The last I heard, Marnie was no longer a professional
academic.
> b) Was the Kleiber article ever published?
I don't know - but I could probably find out.
> c) any further writings by Hanlon and Kleiber (or others) on the subject
> of a VFT of the private sphere?
I am in no better position than anyone else to do a literature search on
this. I can do some searches on my own bibliographic data base if anyone is
interested.
michael
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