When homo oeconomicus becomes normative across all spheres, and responsibilization and appreciation of human capital become the governing truth of public life, social life, work life, welfare, education, and the family, there are two possibilities for those positioned as women in the sexual division of labor that neoliberal orders continue to depend upon and reproduce. Either women align their own conduct with this truth, becoming homo oeconomicus, in which case the world becomes uninhabitable, or women's activities and bearing as femina domestica remain the unavowed glue for a world whose governing principle cannot hold it together, in which case women occupy their old place as unacknowledged props and supplements to masculinist liberal subjects. … It is formulated, in short, as an effect of nature, not of power.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 205