In this excerpt from L’Esprit du don, the author highlights the ambivalence of women’s liberation movement. Legitimately concerned with not being closed up within the domestic sphere under the economic domination of a man, women aspire to an ever-growing access to the workplace. Hence what appears in Marxist analyses as being alienating is here interpreted as liberation. In so doing, do women not risk losing part of the specificity of their relation to gift? How can women escape being torn between these opposite requirements? Should it not be recognized that other choices than the subordination to utilitarian and merchant values are also possible and valuable?