date
- 02.06.2023
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Sara Farris “Feminists From the Kitchen Floor: On Domestic Workers’ Erased Feminism”
Domestic workers have been erased from two important movements of the 20th and 21st century: the workers' movement and the feminist movement.
On the one hand, studies on class have historically neglected care and domestic workers in their analysis. Notoriously, both Karl Marx and E. P. Thompson did not include female 'servants' in their description of the English working class, in spite of the fact that this was the most prevalent job for working women in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. On the other hand, servants and domestic workers have been erased from the history of the feminist movement in spite of their important presence and contributions.
This paper will address these two forms of erasure, and try to understand what it would mean to bring the domestic workers movement fully into the family picture of the workers' movement and the feminist movement.
bio
Sara Farris is a sociologist with expertise in social theory, gender, migration and care/social reproduction. She is well known internationally for her research on the mobilisation of feminist themes by nationalist parties within anti-immigration and anti-Islam campaigns, or “femonationalism”. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the European Commission through the Daphne III and Marie Curie Programmes, and the Leverhulme Trust. She has published several books – including In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) and Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) – alongside numerous articles in leading journals.
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date
- 02.06.2023
bio
Sara Farris is a sociologist with expertise in social theory, gender, migration and care/social reproduction. She is well known internationally for her research on the mobilisation of feminist themes by nationalist parties within anti-immigration and anti-Islam campaigns, or “femonationalism”. Her research has been funded by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the European Commission through the Daphne III and Marie Curie Programmes, and the Leverhulme Trust. She has published several books – including In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) and Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) – alongside numerous articles in leading journals.
seminar video
seminar video
seminar
Sara Farris “Feminists From the Kitchen Floor: On Domestic Workers’ Erased Feminism”
Domestic workers have been erased from two important movements of the 20th and 21st century: the workers' movement and the feminist movement.
On the one hand, studies on class have historically neglected care and domestic workers in their analysis. Notoriously, both Karl Marx and E. P. Thompson did not include female 'servants' in their description of the English working class, in spite of the fact that this was the most prevalent job for working women in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. On the other hand, servants and domestic workers have been erased from the history of the feminist movement in spite of their important presence and contributions.
This paper will address these two forms of erasure, and try to understand what it would mean to bring the domestic workers movement fully into the family picture of the workers' movement and the feminist movement.
