Explain Gilman’s line “…the sex-relation is also an economic relation” from Women and Economics. Also, provide examples from cultures other than the U.S. as part of your explanation.
What will be an ideal response?
Gilman argues that “women’s work” is actually mostly house service (cooking, cleaning, mending, etc.), not child service (bearing children, breastfeeding, etc.). Thus, Gilman contends that the traditional division of labor is not biologically driven. In short, like a horse, women are subject to the “power and will of another” because their domestic labor, for which no wages are received in return, belongs not to themselves but to their husbands. Women are thus rendered economically dependent. Consequently, Gilman argues, rather than develop her own capabilities, women reduce themselves to attracting a viable life partner.
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