HIS-215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Economy, Wage Labour, Sweatshop
Document Summary
We have built ups signi cance of domesticity of a white woman"s identity. Context of their engagement with public space through reform. Then we switch gears to go back and say, we have to situate this with other women experiences, enslaved women. Last to add to the mix, is working class experiences. Engage other experiences of women (chinese women) a variety of di erent experiences. Working class women, how we might situate them in relation to middle class women. Middle class households have become tremendously important, ideological importance, idea of domesticity, home as emerged as central pillar, where we guard morality, opposite of harsh competitive world and opposite of politics. When we turn out attention to a lot of women, the majority of women in this time period is they are de ned outside of the home, outside of morality, home is not essential to their identity. Working class women there is no sharp distinction between public and private space.
