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'''Obligation''' To what extent does Boydston provide evidence that the tasks performed by wifes were seen as obligations? What evidence does she give? - Stephen | '''Obligation''' To what extent does Boydston provide evidence that the tasks performed by wifes were seen as obligations? What evidence does she give? - Stephen | ||
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| + | '''Implied Obligation'''I don't know if it is necessarily explicitly mentioned, Stephen, but there was definitely an undercurrent of the wives being expected to perform the jobs that they did. It's not that these are jobs that only women can perform, but there was definitely an idea of the women being the only ones who SHOULD perform them. -Cash Nelson | ||
'''Marx''' I find Boydston's crtique of Marxism as fundemental to her understanding of the role and definition of subsistence in a family. Does Boydston do a fair job in showing that housewives' labor was distinctive enough to be reconized outside of the typical Marxist analysis? - Stephen | '''Marx''' I find Boydston's crtique of Marxism as fundemental to her understanding of the role and definition of subsistence in a family. Does Boydston do a fair job in showing that housewives' labor was distinctive enough to be reconized outside of the typical Marxist analysis? - Stephen | ||
