The Triple Day: Women’s Home, Community, and Workplace Environments
| Autor: | Meredeth Turshen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Women’s Health Movements ISBN: 9789811394669 Women's Health Movements ISBN: 9781403978981 |
| Popis: | This chapter considers women in their environments—their homes, their communities, and their workplaces. The term environment has several meanings here: it indicates physical, inorganic factors (soil, climate), biological factors (plants, animals, germs), and social factors (human activity—everything from the built environment to human behavior). Many studies document the mutual interdependence of people and their environments; less well understood is the interdependence of women’s lives in their three environments—home, community, and workplace. Women’s multiple roles spill over from home to community to workplace, so that these environments are in practice inseparable in women’s lives. Even when women work outside the home for wages, they still do most of the work of maintaining a home and caring for the family; and almost everywhere women’s social skills create and sustain communities, turning women’s double day into a triple day. Together these three sets of activities translate into exhaustion, stress, and cumulatively, poor health. This chapter seeks to spell out how sexism, racism, homophobia, and class prejudice mold those environments. Conversely, women’s movements shape their environments by mobilizing women to resist and fight back. Women are organizing for change in each of their environments, sometimes in small, everyday protests and sometimes as part of large international movements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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