There is also focus on the dependency of the public on the private. Private work ensures survival for the public arena. Feminists argue that the exclusive realms of family and society are bounded by assumptions about public and private and male and female sex roles. Women are simultaneously restricted from being moral or rational agents and situated as inspirational models for morality. Feminisms negotiate these complications either through the inclusion of family in to the public and political realms to make visible the oppression of women within in the household or deny the private sphere in favor of advocating that women make there way alongside men in the public world.
Feminism is concerned with acknowledging the personal sphere as a social and political space.
Frederick Engels argues that the restriction of women to the household, or private sphere is a result of private property attained by males. He argues that prior to patriarchy there existed egalitarian societies with equal division of labor. With the domestication of animals, herding, and animal husbandry came private property. To ensure security of private property the monogamous, patriarchal family was created to ensure that man s belongings stayed within his biological offspring. Women s oppression is linked to private property and the creation of the monogamous, patriarchal family for protection of family stuff through bloodline.