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

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打造关怀政治：英国妇女解放运动中的家务劳动理论化

在1970年代，英国和西方其他地方的女权主义者对工作性质提出了质疑，并批评了性别分工。他们认为，对妇女工作的低估是困扰男女关系的核心，并认为转变工作是形成新型亲密关系的必要条件。到1970年代后期，英国女权主义者通常将“负担负担”似乎自动地落在妇女身上，成为家庭的情感中心，并呼吁人们重新考虑家庭内外的照料。在激进主义者试图从理论上和政治上挑战妇女地位的情况下，妇女解放运动（WLM）的关键问题是家务劳动，有偿就业以及妇女担任照料者的社会角色等问题。英国的激进主义者通过提请人们注意妇女从事的情感劳动和普遍的亲密化商品，做出了回应，并为情感和政治劳动经济的转变做出了贡献。女权主义者的高潮