Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Quintin's Response
I believe in Ehrenreich's "Maid to Order," that her audience was to all women even if you did do housework or didn't do it at all. I think she was just trying to get her point across about how women use to work back then in the sixties and seventies. She argued about how women use to clean the entire house, getting on their hands and knees. Also argued that women had problems in their relationship because of the housework. In most cases, men that did have a job, couldn't do anything without a woman that did housework especially, when it came down to doing their laundry.
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I feel as if Ehrenreich's audience might have partially been directed towards women, for the reasons you state, but not entirely. At one point in her piece, Ehrenreich says, "An early German women's liberation cartoon depicted a woman scrubbing on her hands and knees while her husband, apparently excited by this pose, approaches from behind, unzipping his fly". So, most definitely, she is trying to point out that men feel superior to women and it was the woman's place to get on her hands and knees and clean. However, I feel she directs a lot of her attention to the wealthy and upper-class, as well, because they are the ones ignorant of simple household chores.
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