(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding
they differed from their white counterparts only to the extent that their domestic aspirations were thwarted by the exigencies of the slave system
they differed from their white counterparts only to the extent that their domestic aspirations were thwarted by the exigencies of the slave system
(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (verb) to debase in moral or aesthetic status / (verb) to make ineffective
Housework, Gilman insists, vitiates women’s humanity:
Housework, Gilman insists, vitiates women’s humanity: