Domestic Occupations

Explores women’s complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women’s efforts at taking on new kinds of work.

Exploreaza relatia complexa si schimbatoare a femeilor cu casa si modul in care aceasta a afectat intrarea lor la locul de munca. Jessica Enoch examineaza retorica spatiala care a definit casa in secolele al XIX-lea si inceputul secolului al XX-lea si ia in considerare modul in care constructia si reconstructia acesteia au modelat eforturile femeilor de a prelua noi tipuri de munca.