[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Current Reading

[a_potato]

I'm reading 'Haruko's World' by Gail Lee Bernstein. It's an ethnography about women's roles in Japanese farming communities in the '70s.

It's fascinating. And while the women were expected to perform duties that are stereotypically female (clean and cook, for instance), it upends some notions of what "women's work" is and has been. The current Western narrative doesn't tend to allow for farm women working in the fields, but these women were absolutely expected to. In some respects, they did more of the hard labor than their husbands.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fairly sure (although no sources to hand) that women have frequently done hard agricultural labor including working in the fields at times in Western agrarian societies

it's just a lot of weird-ass assumptions and images peopl ehave

Re: Current Reading

[a_potato]

Oh yeah, absolutely! Not that long ago, either! But people have taken the whole "cult of domesticity" thing and the ideal of the 1950s and applied it to all times and places, and they use both to make some pretty ridiculous, absolutist arguments about men's and women's places. Like you said, weird-ass assumptions and images.

It's just really nice to see a recent and concrete example of how wrong those arguments are.