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...return for spending about eight hours a week on housework residents are guaranteed everything from home-cooked meals to single rooms to a continuous supply of beer provided by the designated 'Beer Czar...
...maintenance is run by an independent student group. According to housing and dining coordinator Anne Ludlow, about 150 students live in the co-ops and pay about one-third of the board which students in regular dorms are charged. In return the students spend four hours a week doing housework in the co-ops as well as ordering and preparing food. Ludlow attributes the popularity of Oberlin's co-ops--which are about 30 years old--to the opportunity they offer for students to form "close relationships in a smaller community...
...flow is one-way. The lines of money, education, social goods have run from "us" to "them." Is it any wonder then that the free flow legitimization, the traffic of ideas, the freedom of choice of the worker, the "natural" exchange of the genders of economic labor for housework, were so strongly assaulted? And with this in mind, is it any wonder why the country has titled to the right? (Think of a giant pinball machine, tilting to one side and shutting...
...women have got themselves together in the past couple of decades, if they have learned, as feminists, to demand respect, orgasms, equal pay, coed housework, vice-presidential nominations and the right to run the marathon in the Olympic Games, can men be far behind...
...many of the issues of the women's movement, from housework to abortion, were so basic to so much received wisdom that they seemed, by prospect or in perspective, either trivial or threatening. "Attention was finally being paid," Joan Didion wrote in a 1972 essay, "yet that attention was mired in the trivial. Even the brightest movement women found themselves engaged in sullen public colloquies about the inequities of dishwashing and the intolerable humiliations of being observed by construction workers on Sixth Avenue. ... It was a long way from Simone de Beauvoir's grave and awesome recognition of woman...