Comments for Women and Patriarchy at http://paintedred.info , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://paintedred.info Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:21:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://paintedred.info/18-Women-and-Patriarchy.html#comment-22 Thanks! If you are trying to locate files which are stored on the Rapidshare server, I recommend to try [url=http://filecraft.com]rapidsharemix - Rapidshare Search engine[/url] now! - Howard Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:02:11 +0100 http://paintedred.info/18-Women-and-Patriarchy.html#comment-10 With the introduction of industry that thrived on profit, home based industry lost it’s sparkle. As Strasser argues,“ the new consumerism declared that things that cost money had more value than those that did not.” (262) What then was the worth of something that is not paid for? Where would the post-industrial homemaker find her worth, her purpose, when her role as provider disappeared when her husband went off to work and brought home a paycheck? So what was a mother to do? On one hand the industrial revolution made the daily drudgery less so. No more hauling large amounts of water to cook with and do laundry. As Susan Strasser points out in 1899 a typical six day period of a homemaker would mean hauling 292 pounds of coal into the house, 27 pounds of ashes sifted out and taken out of the house, and 14 pounds of kindling rounded up and brought into the house. (41) When women and men’s lives changed due to the industrial revolution and new technology, it brought the men along with this change and left women behind. The for-profit economy left the homemaker in a precarious position. The homemaker had her workload lightened but her place in society as a whole was left fuzzy and uncertain. When women were responsible for keeping a family alive with the food she made, clothes she sewed, and the house she kept there was a real worth in this existence. As Susan Strasser observes, “ in a society increasingly dominated by money and profit, [women] their arena-the household-stood apart; full-time housewives earned only their subsistence in food, clothing, and shelter, laboring to maintain their families while their men folk worked for wages to produce profits for business.” (180) “Unpaid housewives, working without machines and repeating endless tasks like cleaning…that generated no tangible products at all, seemed less important to the new society, then wage-earning industrial producers.” (185) - Elizabeth Young Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:27:07 +0100