SOCI 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Washing Machine, Separate Spheres, Hand Washing
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Lecture 14 housework and parenting reproductive labour. *form and function are the two categories consistently asked by sociologists review this for essay. Housework: reproductive labour is labour that is involved in reproducing the family. Necessary daily grind: we all have to do it. To some extent, we think of it as an expression of love or caring. Expression of love or caring: societally we frame this as love. Seen as requiring no skills: where women work started being devalued, no skill labour is what society would describe it as. Form of discipline: think of children doing chores. Understanding housework for academics it did not take shape until the 1970s: coming off the women liberation movement, the idea that women were doing all this work without being appreciated. Many tasks, and many household tasks do exist in the market we would pay other individuals to do this for us.