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Ellen L

The women behind Mrs Woolf - Telegraph - 0 views

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a room of one's own Woolf servants

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  • Upon reaching adulthood, she would never live without some form of domestic "help", and battling the "timid spiteful servant mind" throughout her life both enraged her and sustained her. It was easier for her to regard her servants as not quite real than to accept the fact of her dependence on others.
  • It's a compelling portrait of how rich and poor women of this time were locked into a strange and pernicious symbiosis, and a vital warning against social inequality.
  • Ellen L on 11 Oct 11
     
    It is interesting how Woolf thought so negatively about the social gap between men and women, and the poverty of women that kept them from freely thinking, yet had no qualms about depending on servants and other domestic help. These people are in similar situations to the ones she portrays women to hold, which makes her treatment of them suprising (she tries to avoid contact with them by writing her orders in order to avoid them all together)
Vivas T

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treatment of the worker nickel and dimed

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  • When one is charged a little bit at a time until the expense grows beyond expectations, that is called being "nickel and dimed." In 2001's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, essayist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich applies this notion to minimum-wage workers. She argues that their spirit and dignity are chipped away by a culture that allows unjust and unlivable working conditions, which results in their becoming a de facto, or actual without being official, servant class.
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
       
      The definition of "nickel and dimed" portrays the fact that the employers are clearly benefiting more than the low class worker. The definition illustrates that the low class workers and losing, or being "charged", more than they are gaining, and soon they will be in grave danger, illustrated through a vision of debt. As a result, this debt relates to the "unlivable working conditions" that these workers have to put up with and also relates to their membership in the "servant class".
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