为家务劳动赋值：女性主义研究的理论图谱

Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed the need to build a three-in-one system of family, family education and family ethos, which has led to widespread recognition of the importance of family building. The emphasis on the importance of the family cannot be limited to recognizing the single emotional and cultural value of the family as a harbor, but should be integrated with a global research perspective to discover the multiple values of the family, especially domestic work. In this paper, three main theoretical frameworks for arguing for the value of domestic work are outlined: the 'social reproduction' theory in Marxist feminism, the 'care economy' in feminist economics, and the 'caring activity' in the ethics of care. Simultaneously, this paper reviews the controversies within these theories and the challenges they face, and critically examines the ways in which they present the value of domestic work and the compensation they advocate; Then, this paper analyses the development and applicability of these global theoretical perspectives in the Chinese context in the light of the current state of research on the value of domestic work in China.