01451nam a22001457a 4500 523871 523871 231011b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Daniel, Namrata 44087 The political economy of sexual labour and its commodification : Notes from the field Social Scientist 51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.77-86 This paper focuses on the political economy of sexual relations in a capitalist system, where the relationship is mediated, structured and regulated through four major institutions, the family. Community, market and state. These collectively control and consume women’s domestic and sexual services within the private and public spheres for smooth functioning of the capitalism system. Women labour plays an integral rule in social reproduction processes and reproduces social hierarchies. The failure to connect women’s domestic labour and social precaution results in the treatment of work undertaken by them as unpaid labour, which is not regarded and recognized as an economic activity. This pper studies the commodification of women’s bodies, to argue that violence is an integral part of the strategy of control of women and is structural in character. Violence in the public and private spheres is integral to the strategy of control over women and various forms of their services and labour. – Reproduced Social Scientist WOMEN AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 398918 IIPA IIPA 2023-10-11 51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.77-86 AR129753 2023-10-11 AR