Using an example from each of the cultural groups identified in Dill’s reading, explain why the concept of reproductive labor must be modified for women of color.
What will be an ideal response?
May include the following:
a. African American women who were kept as slaves worked full day for the slave owner’s and then cooked, sewed, cared for their children, and cleaned house.
b. Chinese women were subject to split households during which wives remained in China caring for children and in-laws while men worked in the United Stated. Many Chinese women in the United States worked as prostitutes to support their families.
c. Chicano women often took on seasonal job and agricultural jobs in order to support their families, plus the household, childrearing, and community responsibilities they also held.
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a. electroshock b. mind-destroying drugs c. psychosurgery d. all of the above
Within each of India's castes, women:
A) have higher status than men B) have lower status than men C) have equality with men D) depends on the specific caste as to whether men and women are equal
An evaluation of a family leave policy by Connecticut businesses revealed that
A) most firms exhibited the resourcefulness to deal with leaves without incurring substantial costs. B) most employees had to lay off other employees to make it work. C) excessive leave-taking became a major problem. D) both B and C are true.
Police officers, lawyers, baseball players, and jazz musicians would all be examples of:
a. occupational subcultures. b. countercultures. c. marginal groups. d. deviant cultures. e. elite group cultures.