Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Maid To Order
1) I feel that this article was to get the attention of all women upper and lower class. Ehrenreich tries to put into perspective for everyone what it is like for these maids. She also tell of how she spent time as a maid to let her audience know she knows first had what it is like to be a maid.
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Andrew, what do you think her purpose was in writing to women of all classes? I only ask because I interpreted her audience in a different way. I thought she was writing to men who are unappreciative of women as well as to women who don't know what it's like to work in an environment similar to what a maid experiences.
ReplyDeleteI think that upper and middle class women were part of Ehrenreich’s audience but I think Ehrenreich addressed other group of people as well. Ehrenreich addressed women because she wants upper and middle class women to know what it was like work as a maid and only live off that salary, just like she wants men to be aware of what its like.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the author is talking to the upperclass. She might be talking to women, but i feel she is talking to the people who higher these maids. Ehrenreich is trying to get the point across that the upperclass does not appreciate these minimum wage workers. I read the whole book last year in school and she mentions encounters with both men and women who work for minimum wage.
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