POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Domestic Worker, Personal Services, Physical Abuse
3 Mar 2012
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It is socially constructed, we as a society get together and decide what is feminine and what is masculine. Roles vary over time and across societies: within same society we see and evolution, changes what people consider to be the ideal feminine/masculine type. We can do it poster: produced by the us to encourage them to go into the factories to build tanks and guns. Domestic worker and consumer (buying new appliances) Keeper of the household: has a leisure life, not many problems. There are racial roles as well: white = keepers, black = workers. 2/3rds of 872 million illiterate people are women. 20 million unsafe abortions, 585000 die from childbirth, 20 million suffer disability. A. domestics: child, house, elder care. Hiring of nannies, medical staff, domestic house workers (documented and non-documented: need in developing and developed, contradictory relations between women. Many american soldiers, and when they left, they were replaced by tourists (single males: extent.
