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I found Kleinegger's idea of the masculinization of agriculture to be very interesting. Agriculture, to me, is primarily a male-gendered role, but she states, "Earliest times when primitive women were primarily responsible for agricultural productions" (p 171). And this masculinization consisted of "increased mechanization, specialization, capital outlay, and scientific expertise" (p 171). Although these definitely seem masculine, did that mean everything industrial was considered masculine now? Weren't there women workers too? With this she states that there were indeed women working when she talks about the early cheese producing factories and how cheeses were originally made by women in the home (p 171). But why then were women all of a sudden being pushed out of their once important roles on the farms? Was it only because the production entailed factory conditions? Because cheese production had now been masculinized? -Claire Brooks | I found Kleinegger's idea of the masculinization of agriculture to be very interesting. Agriculture, to me, is primarily a male-gendered role, but she states, "Earliest times when primitive women were primarily responsible for agricultural productions" (p 171). And this masculinization consisted of "increased mechanization, specialization, capital outlay, and scientific expertise" (p 171). Although these definitely seem masculine, did that mean everything industrial was considered masculine now? Weren't there women workers too? With this she states that there were indeed women working when she talks about the early cheese producing factories and how cheeses were originally made by women in the home (p 171). But why then were women all of a sudden being pushed out of their once important roles on the farms? Was it only because the production entailed factory conditions? Because cheese production had now been masculinized? -Claire Brooks | ||
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| + | Early recognition of the women's movement has been around since the 17th century, as far as I know, but it's interesting to see that this movement is concieved as permeating "into rural America just like the modern appliances and utilities had". (I just thought this comparison was interesting.) But expanding on Megan's point, I can see that the bulk of these inventions we're reading about were designed to ease men's problems. It's interesting to see inventions aimed at women and their subtle ways of controlling. (Appliancces that made the women stay in the kitchen, department stores to capitalizee off of suburban, middle-class women, etc.) --Stephanie Lipscomb | ||
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