Who does not remember the character Gwen (played by Rose Leslie) in Downton Abbey, secretly practicing her typing lessons in order to do away with her fate as a servant and thus conquer life Working girl London? Gwen’s escape was sparkled en masse by a generation of women who departed from generational change in service to an entire social class. This created a logistical loophole for the better-off, the so-called “servant problem”: middle and upper-class women in the early twentieth century realized that many of the women who worked in the service were more than willing to join factory and office work, in short, to be Gwen.
This labor shortage, combined with the profound changes that science and industrialization brought about in all aspects of life, has resulted in a major change in home life. This social phenomenon led to the emergence of books and guides on home economics and techniques written by and for women where the focus was on home management. Because, who will be responsible for managing this shift towards the modern home? Bingo. Mental burden but in version Up and down. And not all of them were very wealthy, the average serving middle and upper middle class at the time was one or two people in homes that were increasingly leaning toward single-family housing or the typical single and comfortable floors of a 20th century home.
The gender implications of this shift are wild: The local manager’s personality for the love of technology has been reinvented and made perfect, i.e. homeowners with Tools. An army of women is ready to specialize, even without the slightest social recognition and vision, in a new discipline: modern family management. Among other things and a lot of laughter, this episode of the Feminist Science Podcast tells us about these social consequences and their political edges. Lady of ScienceWhere the emergence of contemporary local architecture is discussed.
Anna Reaser, a Lady Science editor, commented on this episode, “When we talk about home engineering, we do it mainly with the aim of showing how science has become a part of everyday life in this period and how scientific women can if they are not able to reach more areas. Formal science, and they did a lot of experiments and create knowledge in their homes, and that this is a really important scenario for thinking about what modern science is, who does it, how it is used, how it is translated and transmitted, and that Women are an essential vector for the movement of knowledge. “ Because women have traditionally been specialists, housework and home logistics scientists, as well as those responsible for integrating new concepts and improving methods in their work. “In addition to the passive adoption of new technologies or technologies, for example, how to buy a vacuum cleaner or learn new disinfection methods, women have really taken on new forms of knowledge about home life, and the regulation and legalization of home science.” Reaser. Home engineering is definitely complex and relates to issues of class, work, ethnicity, and social and political movements. Naturally, it strikes the status of women in modern Western society.
These handbooks on home science demonstrated the potential of science to improve home management and the basic structures of home life: recipe indexing, cleaning methods, routine indexing, accounting, procurement forecasting, storage, and food preservation. And then, of course, psychology, pedagogy, and pedagogy physiology and satisfaction with the breadwinner spouse. All these functions have been organized in minute detail, with all the social, cultural and political dimensions that could have or may not have the implementation of this engineering. You might be overwhelmed by questioning these theses in what Betty Friedan portrayed so well in 1963 The magic of femininity As “The Nameless Trouble” (Does she remember Betty Draper masturbating with the new spin function of the washing machine? Or April Wheeler dealing with her third unwanted pregnancy in her new kitchen on Revolution Street?). The home becomes a microcosm of the state, and women are responsible for protecting its regulations. Not to mention the ethnic and class connotations all of these recipes carry. Because “Who are we talking about when we talk about family?” Says Rebecca Ortenberg, another podcast host, “From a white middle-class family as a unit of state, the basic unit of the state.”
The cruel side of this recognition of the work of many women and home science students is their assumption that “without a scientific mind” it is pointless to run a home without supervision. Come on, basically, the service doesn’t even have enough training to understand or understand the scope and significance of home engineering. That is why we cannot fall into the mere ceremonial view of such silent knowledge without looking at blind spots or in a non-critical manner. “Wouldn’t it be great if women could do applied science at home? Well, what about women who did not have homes and lived in other people’s homes and cooked their own food?” Adds Laila McNeill, third editor of Lady Science. And if we look at the house: What about the women’s section, which makes all this systematic organization of knowledge and local specialties an ideological and male indoctrination?
Now that we are all stuck in the house the entire time, our assumptions about the architecture of the home are again brought to the table. Who is still in the hands of most home organizations? How much local knowledge disappear? Is Mary Kondo behind her funny, inspiring robotic look a local engineer? Maybe you end up talking to your Roomba on your own, or asking yourself that the current challenge in this regard would be the ability to make care and housework masculine, or rather generalize it without these sexual, racial, class and scientific prejudices toward it could be a way. Incidentally, the creators of Lady Science say, they are tired of denouncing that science has become masculine: “broaden our definition of science and, thus, define us as a scientist. Local engineering: the scientific and technical discipline in and of itself.”
