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Glenn, Evelyn Nakano From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor 1992 Article History of Women and Work, Black Women Servitude, Service Work, Womens Work, Female Labour, Gender, Race, Gendered Labour, Racialised Labour, Intersectionality, Minority Groups, Working Women, Division Of Labour, Reproductive Labour
Citation Glenn, Evelyn Nakano 1992 Article Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Servitude Service Work Womens Work Female Labour Gender Race Gendered Labour Racialised Labour Intersectionality Minority Groups Working Women Division Of Labour Reproductive Labour History of Women and Work Black Women

"From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor"

by Glenn, Evelyn Nakano (1992)

Abstract

Recent scholarship on African American, Latina, Asian American, and Native American women reveals the complex interaction of race and gender oppression in their lives. These studies expose the inadequacy of additive models that treat gender and race as separate and discrete systems of hierarchy (Collins 1986; King 1988; Brown 1989). In an additive model, white women are viewed solely in terms of gender, while women of color are thought to be" doubly" subordinated by the cumulative effects of gender plus race. Yet achieving a …

Keywords

Servitude, Service Work, Womens Work, Female Labour, Gender, Race, Gendered Labour, Racialised Labour, Intersectionality, Minority Groups, Working Women, Division Of Labour, Reproductive Labour

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History of Women and Work, Black Women

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