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THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
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vitiate
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(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (verb) to debase in moral or aesthetic status / (verb) to make ineffective
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Housework, Gilman insists, vitiates women’s humanity:
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Housework, Gilman insists, vitiates women’s humanity:
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1 year, 2 months ago
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For Black women today and for all their working-class sisters, the notion that the burden of housework and child care can be shifted from their shoulders to the society contains one of the radical secrets of women’s liberation. Child care should be socialized, meal preparation should be socialized, housework should be industrialized—and all these services should be readily accessible to working-class people.
i feel like this part is undertheorized. what exactly does 'society' mean here. i dont disagree with it necessarily but this whole chapter is kinda superficial
For Black women today and for all their working-class sisters, the notion that the burden of housework and child care can be shifted from their shoulders to the society contains one of the radical secrets of women’s liberation. Child care should be socialized, meal preparation should be socialized, housework should be industrialized—and all these services should be readily accessible to working-class people.
i feel like this part is undertheorized. what exactly does 'society' mean here. i dont disagree with it necessarily but this whole chapter is kinda superficial