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uses lack of citizenship as leverage to get what she wants‚ highlighting the inequality of their residency status. Without legal protection‚ immigrants like Flora depend on their employers for security and protection and are vulnerable to abuse (Hochschild‚ 104). Another example of the abuse of power is the husband’s relationship with Flora. He see’s Flora as a sexual object and justifies taking advantage of her because of his pre-conceived notion of her as inferior as a woman of color and lower status
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Antoinette Johnson English 100 Prof. Horna October 3‚ 2012 In the essay “The second shift”‚ by Arlie Hochschild‚ he explains how the wives of two-job families with small children typically work an extra 24-hour day in a year‚ between the pages 145(bottom) and 148(top). I agree with Hochschild’s determination because once women come home from first shift‚ they go straight into second shift. Whereas men come home from first shift‚
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Vicky AdamsE) Using material from item B and elsewhere asses the view that it no longer makes sense to talk about the patriarchal family. In the 19th century families were considered to be patriarchal. Patriarchy is a male dominated household/society. However in today’s society‚ some sociologist’s would argue that this is no longer true‚ but other sociologist’s state the patriarchal family still exists. Item B states that the husband ‘was often the sole breadwinner’ however this is now not the
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Seeing Straight: An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege‚ offers great insight into the varying arguments of traditional marriage‚ marriage equality‚ those who are against marriage‚ sexual relationships‚ gender‚ and domestic divisions of labor. These topics are relative in nature and‚ in most cases‚ overlap one another. To provide a thorough answer to Essay Questions No’s 1 and 3‚ I have taken the liberty to answer both questions in this one single paper; to illustrate the arguments pertaining
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more to become more financially successful has had a negative affect on family and personal lives. People strive to spend more hours in the work place as opposed to spending quality time with their family. “From the Frying Pan into the Fire” by Arlie Hochschild she emphasizes the change in family values that is due to the pressure of being apart of a capitalist society. Gregory Orr in his personal narrative “Return to Hayneville” retells his account of how he managed to survive being held captive and
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reality‚ a lot of these reasons can be true. But what about when we think about what can make a person invisible? Clearly‚ we as humans do not have any sort of super power that can make us invisible. So what does it mean when Barbara Erenreich and Arlie Hochschild say that there are women considered “the world’s most invisible women” (Global Women)? Firstly‚ the women they are referring to in this statement are the immigrant domestic workers that are in the global economy. The women are involved in the
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Arlie Russell Hochschild is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California‚ Berkeley. Hochschild’s interests of research are in the impact of contemporary capitalism on everyday life. In the essay she wrote‚ “From the Frying Pan into the Fire”‚ Hochschild argues the growing emphasis on efficiency is affecting our lives. We have allowed the idea of workplace efficiency to infiltrate within the home life‚ in significant and negative ways. Hochschild’s study of the influence of efficiency
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Division of labor in a Household The division of labor in the household hold depends on the environment. Society creates gender ideology that affects the roles women and men take on in the household. In The Second Shift by Arlie Russell‚ she states three different ideologies of gender. There is the traditional‚ transitional and egalitarian ideology that determines what sphere men and women want to identify with‚ home sphere or work sphere. However‚ it depends what kind on the time period and society
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example‚ did paid labor outside the home and saw it as a necessity to being a good mother. Young Latina’s‚ however‚ often worked the “second shift” as well as their current job. This “second shift” is a term that was “introduced by sociologist Arlie Hochschild to describe the additional and unpaid labor done by some family members when they arrive from work.”(413) Some of these unpaid job duties include grocery shopping‚ cooking‚ running errands‚ household work and caring for the children. Latina mothers
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