Грижата за децата и социализацията на възпроизводителния труд като борба за полово равенство в дискурса на Комитета на българските жени
Childcare and the Socialization of Reproductive Work as a Struggle for Gender Equality in the Discourse of the Committee of Bulgarian Women

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyse how the concept of reproductive labour is deployed in the discourse of the Committee of Bulgarian Women (CBW) in the 1960s, specifically in relation to the socialisation of childcare labour in the form of nursery schools and crèches. I deploy the concept of social reproduction to examine the arguments mobilised by the CBW in order to defend the need for public care in childrearing. These arguments provide important insights into how women's place, roles and 'nature' are defined in socialist society. The CBW uses a plethora of positions based on 1) ideological concepts of Engels and Lenin, 2) sociological data obtained through surveys, and 3) framing women’s problems as general problems of socialist society. The article focuses on how the birth rate discourse produced by the state socialist regime is met by the CBW with demands for greater public intervention in social reproduction to off set women's care work.The goal of this paper is to analyse how the concept of reproductive labour is deployed in the discourse of the Committee of Bulgarian Women (CBW) in the 1960s, specifically in relation to the socialisation of childcare labour in the form of nursery schools and crèches. I deploy the concept of social reproduction to examine the arguments mobilised by the CBW in order to defend the need for public care in childrearing. These arguments provide important insights into how women's place, roles and 'nature' are defined in socialist society. The CBW uses a plethora of positions based on 1) ideological concepts of Engels and Lenin, 2) sociological data obtained through surveys, and 3) framing women’s problems as general problems of socialist society. The article focuses on how the birth rate discourse produced by the state socialist regime is met by the CBW with demands for greater public intervention in social reproduction to offset women's care work.

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