A woman’s agricultural labour, for instance, is not paid if it is performed within the family; she cannot exchange her family production on the market. Therefore, she does not make use of her own labour power. Her husband makes use of it, since he alone can exchange his wife’s production on the market. In the same way a woman does not make use of her housework as long as it is performed within the family; she can only exchange it outside the family. Thus women’s production always has an exchange value — can be exchanged by them — except within the framework of the family. With
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