The principal thesis of the article is that the oppression of women is based on the role of women in the exploited class as the repro ducers of laborers in class society. The oppression of women is not due to the need for the ruling class to hand on its private property to its biol ogical...

The terms used to describe women's household production contain implicit theoretical conceptualizations of this work that are often problematic, but may have rhetorical power.