Just me?

  • PureIdeology [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I've taken a huge interest in the 1920s recently. Ethnic policy, the sexual revolution, early film, women's liberation, experiments in socializing housework, that time they tried to make everybody live in dorms, etc.

      • PureIdeology [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        The main idea behind those is that all that stuff is traditionally women's work. They knew they wouldn't be able to convince men to take up half the housework right away, so socializing what was traditionally women's work was seen as necessary to women's liberation and economic independence. If there are community kitchens and cafeterias, women won't be forced to be in the kitchen all day. If there are free abortions and universal daycare, women won't be saddled with watching kids all the time. That kind of stuff.

        What's the book by the way? I'd love to read it.