Posted: May 23rd, 2022

, discuss the various ways in which a gendered division of labor enables women to have control over their every-day lives in meaningful ways. In other words, does “women’s work” in these times/places lead to women having independence, power, and control over their daily lives in real and practical terms?

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Using the readings from this unit, discuss the various ways in which a gendered division of labor enables women to have control over their every-day lives in meaningful ways. In other words, does “women’s work” in these times/places lead to women having independence, power, and control over their daily lives in real and practical terms? What are the consequences (if any) if women are perceived to have too much power or access to property that is typically considered the domain of men? Does women’s work result in the same type of economic independence as men?
In thinking about your response you may want to think about the following: the types of tasks women performed and whether they did so alone or in groups; whether and to what degree men were included or helped out; how highly the community valued the women’s labor (how essential to survival was their work?).
reading references
Jeanne Boydston, “The Pastoralization of Housework”
Sharon Block, “Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic”
Thavolia Glymph, “Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence”
Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual”
James C. Mohr, “The Abortion landscape, 1800-1880)
Miroslava. Chaves-Garcia, “The Murder Trial of Guadaloupe Trujillo: Los. Angeles, 1843”
Leslie A. Schalwm, “Enslaved Mothers: Claiming Freedom and Risking Death”
Kathleen Brown, “The Anglo-Indian Frontier”
Jennifer Morgan, “Some could Suckle over Their Shoulder…”
Laura Thatcher Ulrich, “Three Inventories, Three Households”
Mary Beth Norton, “An Indentured Servant Identifies as ‘Both Man and Woeman’: Jamestown, 1629”
Carol F. Karlsen, “Inheriting Women and Witchcraft Accusations”
Linda Kerber, “Republican Mothers and Women Citizens”

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