[lbo-talk] Servant culture

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 8:41 AM -0500 8/12/03, C. G. Estabrook posted:
>Servant culture 'killing families, feeding racism'
>
>World's poor pay for west's feminism, says author
>
>Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent, in Edinburgh
>Tuesday August 12, 2003
>The Guardian
>
>Middle-class families who hire cleaners and nannies so women are free to
>go out to work are contributing towards a new exploitative "servant
>economy", a leading American feminist claimed last night.
At 8:41 AM -0500 8/12/03, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>She told the Edinburgh Book Festival that many of the benefits feminism
>had brought to middle-class women in the west had been paid for by the
>enslavement of poor migrant women.

Just what is the proportion of American families who are rich enough 
to hire cleaners and _nannies_?  More importantly, what does the 
topic have to do with feminism?  I would have thought that families 
who could hire cleaners and nannies did so before the emergence of 
feminism and will continue to do so in a class society, regardless of 
whether or not a feminist movement exists.
-- 
Yoshie

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