What's her relation to the means of production?
Tahir: But that is precisely the question.
To the extent that legal discrimination against women in owning property, making contracts, etc. has been abolished, the "Woman Question," as far as the bourgeoisie are concerned, becomes moot. No more paradigmatic modern novel that obsessed over the peculiar predicament of the middle-class woman. It's interesting that socialists in the nineteenth century -- Engels included -- thought of the question of gender mainly in terms of the status of middle-class women. Today, the gender question that we should pay attention to is that of working-class women (and peasant women, too, in underdeveloped nations). - -- Yoshie
Tahir: I'm particularly concerned at the moment with the relationships of housewives and sex workers to the means of production, since I'm grappling with the implications for value theory of the work of Fortunati, Dalla Costa, James, Frederici, et al. Your point about what we should or shouldn't be paying attention to seems an arbitrary choice to me. The relationship of the 'middle class housewife', for example, to the means of production is something that is not entirely clear to me, nor is the political significance of a refusal of this role something that I find uninteresting or irrelevant.