Can we please stop pretending that blank slatists are revolutionaries pushing against reactionary biological essentialists who dominate society? You lot have been the orthodoxy for at least half a century now. You are the reactionaries defending the status quo against change.
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Staying indoors was still an expectation of women. Lots of sermons telling them there was no need to go out and also expected to be at church more while men got some leeway coz needed to work in daylight hours.
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Sermons are interesting source material. As idealizing discourses they testify as much to what was not happening as to the actual lived reality. And it may be argued that the idiosyncratic social mores would tend to get more pulpit time than the realities taken for granted.
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Yes, I know. This is what I do. I have argued this in recent essays too.
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Exactly why I knew you were the one to chat with. Thank you, by the way. ‘Tis fun.
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Agreed, the labor was differentiated. But both were still laboring & co-contributing to household production. (In fact, the children were laborers as well.) So the novel element is, ironically, how conservatives now valorize non-working motherhood as if it’s a timeless role.
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The idea that mothers were devoted to their children certainly is a myth. Because they were so likely to die, it was essential not to get attached until they were about 10.
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