Flanagan - "Let us pause for a moment to consider how the story [Bombeck's] already diverges from the standard cant. Apparently it was possible, long before Rosie tied on her kerchief and flexed her fetching bicep, for a woman to get factory work when she needed to support her family."
Oh really? My first image, upon reading this section, was of the striking "Shirtwaist Girls" and the awful circumstances of the Triangle factory fire.
Flanagan seems to perceive the world using post-WWII U.S. life as the default. A lot of people do. But "at-home" mothering isn't the default. You brought your kids to the field with you, or you stayed home and did piecework, or you left them with grandparents, or (as in the not so very distant past) you did the best you could with them until they were 10 or 11 and old enough to go to work themselves.
Flanagan's "well-reasoned and respectful response" to Berg is just nasty. It makes me want to do mean things. Hmmm. Ooh. I'm gonna find out the names of all of Flanagan's household help, and I'm going to hire them away. Over and over again. Heh.
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Date: 2003-11-26 10:18 am (UTC)Oh really? My first image, upon reading this section, was of the striking "Shirtwaist Girls" and the awful circumstances of the Triangle factory fire.
Flanagan seems to perceive the world using post-WWII U.S. life as the default. A lot of people do. But "at-home" mothering isn't the default. You brought your kids to the field with you, or you stayed home and did piecework, or you left them with grandparents, or (as in the not so very distant past) you did the best you could with them until they were 10 or 11 and old enough to go to work themselves.
Flanagan's "well-reasoned and respectful response" to Berg is just nasty. It makes me want to do mean things. Hmmm. Ooh. I'm gonna find out the names of all of Flanagan's household help, and I'm going to hire them away. Over and over again. Heh.