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Aug 09, 2015
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This book has a middle-class white feminist problem. Ms Summers talked about how women 'don't have to be tied to child-rearing' but place the children in daycare centres... (WHO ARE APPARENTLY STAFFED BY UNGENDERED GHOSTS??!!)
Since having my son and then entering the profession I am always so utterly flabbergasted and enraged by MiddleClass White Mummies who seem to just overlook that the majority of people (STILL) who care for their children are women... and more often than not women who are n ...more
Since having my son and then entering the profession I am always so utterly flabbergasted and enraged by MiddleClass White Mummies who seem to just overlook that the majority of people (STILL) who care for their children are women... and more often than not women who are n ...more
Excellent essay on the roles assigned to early Australian female settlers and the social contradictions arising. Terrific.
