Conclusion

Abstract

Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public addresses how the concept of the private sphere of industrial labor persists within the defense for global regimes of privatization. Though the private sphere is an archaic formation, it continues to evoke the liberal tradition in order to create a sense of separation, for certain practices, away from legal frameworks, oversight, regulation, and public interventions. Even with the distinction between the home and the workplace diminishing, with the unsustainability of the traditional family and a general awareness of the irrationality of the nuclear organization of the family within the current economic organization, the ideology of the private sphere lives on in the re-privatization of women’s labor. This takes the form, for example, of microfinance, which grants debt financing to women with home businesses that manufacture commodities or services by employing traditional family and community structures.