WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Combahee River Collective, Barbara Ehrenreich, Household Division

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Avast and tragical global politics barbara ehrenreich. From division of labour to paid domestic work: 1900"s onward, growing interest in paid domestic work. Implied: relation between working women and working domestics. Temporary foreign workers: even though work is not temporary theyre not granted full citizenship status/full rights when they migrate. Combahee river collective: when v little media attention given to murdered african american women. in downtown boston. Not just african american but african american women. Rigoberta menchu: poor indian peasant women working in urban guatemala. The physical and emotional (caring) labour involved in the everyday and generational maintenance of life itself. If discussions of social reproduction draw our attention to gender difference and especially to male privilege, one of the things this focus on gender alone does it presume that all women have the same relationship to the household. Slavery reveals household division of labour not only by gender, but also by race. Keeping clean house status for respectable women.

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