[lbo-talk] Servant culture

[Charles Brown]

If a person, be s/he a feminist or otherwise, hires another person to
clean his or her house, it's "classism" (which I suppose is another
way of saying bad), but if s/he goes out to a bakery and buys bread,
that's not "classism," even if the products in question are both of
the kind regularly provided by women's unpaid labor in the past? Or
are both instances of "classism"? What of building a house? Fixing
a house? Better to do them on your own than hire services of others?
What of the cases of sending kids to kindergartens and aging parents
to nursing homes? Better to take care of them on your own, to avoid
charges of "classism"?
--
Yoshie

^^^^^
CB: In _Women, Race and Class_, Angela Davis has a chapter on the abolition
of housework ( as we know it) and the transition to widespread professional
housework services.
However, aren't Erhenrich's feminist bona fides sufficient that this is
likely an honest effort at criticism-self-criticism , along the lines that
feminists like Davis have sought to deal with women, race and class ?