In response to feminist criticism, economists are re-examining the gendered nature of domestic labor. Many view bargaining models and metaphors as promising feminist alternatives. This article examines how crucial racial differences relevant to the social construction of domestic labor in the US are currently situated in the bargaining power narrative and offers an assessment of this ascending paradigm within feminist economics. The bargaining power narrative fails to acknowledge racial differences that necessarily constitute women's domestic labor and thereby privileges whiteness.

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