![]() ![]() That work gave meager financial compensation and often interfered with or prevented effective parenting. From slavery to the present day black women have worked outside the home, in the fields, in the factories, in the laundries, in the homes of others. Black women would not have said motherhood prevented us from entering the world of paid work because we have always worked. Racism, availability of jobs, lack of skills or education and a number of other issues would have been at the top of the list – but not motherhood. ![]() Had black women voiced their views on motherhood, it would not have been named a serious obstacle to our freedom as women. Others simply identified motherhood and childrearing as the locus of women’s oppression. Some white middle class, college-educated women argued that motherhood was a serious obstacle to women’s liberation, a trap confining women to the home, keeping them tied to cleaning, cooking, and child care. ![]() ĭuring the early stages of contemporary women’s liberation movement, feminist analyses of motherhood reflected the race and class biases of participants. Excerpt from Feminist theory: from margin to center. ![]()
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