First, it expands theories about the relationship between women's work, social reproduction, and capital accumulation to include work that is both reproductive in nature and remunerated – a previously

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• For the sake of the child: The economisation of reproduction in the Zika public health emergency (2020) · doi

  The relationship between reproductive labour and social reproduction warrants further scrutiny, for as we careen through uncertain ecological futures, and as discourses about limited Earth for humans amid environmental crisis and limited funding for future children thicken, the reproductivity of certain women and girls is being tinkered with by experts, governments, and private institutions in new ways.

  Keywords: limited relationship reproductive labour social reproduction warrants further scrutiny careen uncertain ecological futures discourses earth
• “Red Housekeeping” in a Socialist Factory: <i>Jiashu</i> and Transforming Reproductive Labor in Urban China (1949–1962) (2024) · doi

  First, it expands theories about the relationship between women's work, social reproduction, and capital accumulation to include work that is both reproductive in nature and remunerated – a previously understudied form of labor.

  Keywords: first expands theories relationship women social reproduction capital accumulation include reproductive nature remunerated previously understudied
• Reproductive consumption (2006) · doi

  Although such developments have been analysed by feminists in terms of their ethical consequences or their contribution to the commodification of reproduction, they have not been evaluated in terms of their contribution to reproductive consumption.

  Keywords: terms contribution developments analysed feminists ethical consequences commodification reproduction evaluated reproductive consumption