1. From Servitude to Service: Historical continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor Facilitated by: Erica Cochran

2. What is the author trying to argue?  Women tend to be discussed in comparison to men, not women amongst women  In this article specifically women with power over women with out  Racial inequalities even exist between the minority races.

3. How does the author explain the argument?  Through a historical look at both women in the workforce and racial segregation of the jobs within the workforce  Segregation of jobs according to race and geographical location;  South (African Americans),  West (Asians)  South west (Mexicans/Chicanas)

4.  The labor for some races was harder than the labor for other races.  Very contradictory because women's work was dirty work but “white women” were excluded from doing it.  “White women” were expected to be social and proper.  Domestics were expected to be maternal to there employers children  They were not seen as mothers to their own children. Contradictory truths…

5. Who is the norm in this article?  Middle class white women

6. Strengths of the article…  Tracing how race and gender have been fashioned in one area of women’s work helps us understand them as socially constructed  By understanding that they are interlocking and socially constructed helps strategize for change

7. If race and gender are socially constructed then they must arise at specific moments in a particular circumstance and change as these circumstances change … If race and gender are socially constructed then they must arise at specific moments in a particular circumstance and change as these circumstances change … Do they in this article? Do they in this article?

8. Two fundamental elements in the construction of racial and ethnic womanhood  Inherent traits that suited women for service  African American women: Domestics  Mexicans/Chicanas: Laundresses  Asians: Servants based on who their husband or father worked for.  The denial of women's identities as wives and mothers

9. Weaknesses of the article…  Is there a solution?  Are white women supporters because of short term interest  Gains of one group are still the priorities because of gains of another group require a corresponding loss of advantage and privilege for others

10. In other words…  What is more important?  The success of women as a collective group…  Status of women as a collective group…  or individual success of one race as the dominant group…  It’s a very problematic question

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