Today, definitions of work still assume a male subject and are associated with remuneration, employment, and production. But what if we were to reverse our view and rethink the notion from the perspective of another kind of work, a kind performed largely by women, on which our society and economy are also based?
Doing so would open up new avenues of thought that force us to think jointly about labor paid and unpaid, visible and invisible, questioning the boundaries of work and the purposes they serve. Such a perspective shows us how almost anything can be appropriated by capitalism. Decentering maleness from work entails rethinking how work is exploited.