pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) (09/10/83)
I keep reading that feminists (especially the RADICAL ones) consider childcare demeaning and degrading. In all of my feminist readings, I have never come across this sentiment. Can anyone cite a few references? Radical Feminists: Do any of you consider childcare or full-time homemaking to be demeaning if it is one's chosen path? Patricia Collins hplabs
ginger@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ginger Grover) (09/14/83)
I keep reading that feminists (especially the RADICAL ones) consider
childcare demeaning and degrading. In all of my feminist readings,
I have never come across this sentiment. Can anyone cite a few
references?
Radical Feminists: Do any of you consider childcare or full-time
homemaking to be demeaning if it is one's chosen path?
I don't know ..... to me it seems to be a sort of "chicken-or-
the-egg" question as far as childcare and homemaking being "de-
meaning and degrading". Homemaking and caring for children are
(traditionally) "women's work" and historically women's work has
often been devalued simply because it is work done by women.
This attitude is changing, thank the Godess. I am not a radical
feminist, but I would imagine that it is the *attitude* toward
this work that is at issue, not the work itself. Homemaking ==
housework in many people's minds, and I can easily understand how
some people find *that* repellant! It is also easy to become
disenchanted with childcare by some of the grubbier aspects of
it. Watching my three-month-old niece spit up "cottage cheese"
is not one of my peak experiences.
Ginger Grover
ssc-vax!gingermadrid@auvax (09/16/83)
Check out Shulamith Firestone.
R.
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