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| − | It was probably also empowering for these women to know that they were independent women who were able to provide a little for their families back home. They were also able to choose to stand up for and demand what they wanted and for what they thought was right, through protests, literature and politics. I was looking at the questions at the end of this chapter and question 2 really caught my attention. The women who were the forefront of industrialization probably had different views of family and community than the men back home because the women depended on friends and co-workers. Their sense of community with the other women was based more on equality and support, whereas the men who had families were connected to their loved ones through a sort of familial hierarchy. Within families, it was harder to "challenge...paternalism." (122)- Celia | + | It was probably also empowering for these women to know that they were independent women who were able to provide a little for their families back home. They were also able to choose to stand up for and demand what they wanted and for what they thought was right, through protests, literature and politics. I was looking at the questions at the end of this chapter and question 2 really caught my attention. The women who were the forefront of industrialization probably had different views of family and community than the men back home because the women depended on friends and co-workers. Their sense of community with the other women was based more on equality and support, whereas the men who had families were connected to their loved ones through a sort of familial hierarchy. Within families, it was harder to "challenge...paternalism." (122)- Celia |
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| + | I found this to be a very interesting article. While reading it, I was struck by the contradiction of exploitation and liberation which Dublin addresses. The fact that I really noticed was that women were empowered by their employment to protest against their exploitation at the job which had liberated them initially. The mills seem to represent women's independence but also their susceptibility. They were able to leave their homes and farms to make their own living but by doing so they exposed themselves to another means of being put beneath men. It seems that at the heart of their protesting was the issues of the dignity of women. --Sarah Gardner | ||
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