My Life and Women’s Studies

Geraldine Forbes

Chapter 18 in A Journey into Women’s Studies, 2014, pp 320-335 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract From the time I was nine or ten years of age, I was troubled by the extraordinary workload that women had to bear. I grew up on a farm in western Canada where everyone worked hard. My grandfather drove a team of horses until he was 80, and the children, even the youngest, were assigned responsibilities. Life was not easy. In addition to outside work: growing wheat and other crops, caring for animals, cultivating extensive vegetable gardens, carrying water from two wells, and lugging coal and wood to the house for cooking and heat, there was housework: cooking, cleaning and washing.

Keywords: Indian Woman; Child Marriage; Indian History; Radical Feminism; Gender History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137395740_19

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