NONCONVENTIONAL, CRITICAL THEORIES
division of labor, formed by the partial industrialization of selected Third World countries since the 1970s, the use of docile, cheap female labor (housewives rather than workers) in the Third World was linked with the manipulation of women as consumers in the First World. Hence, for Mies a feminist liberation strategy had to be aimed at the total abolition of all these relations of retrogressive "progress." Feminism called for the end of the exploitation of women and nature by men and the end of the exploitation of colonies and classes.