Pseudo-Inscribed Neutrality: the Servant Lena, the Housewife Alice and the Intellectual Gertrude all Misconceive the Notion of Value

Authors

  • Fernando Meneghel Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2004000200007

Abstract

This paper presents a reading of the way in which feminism treats the issue of houseswok, especially the relationship between domestic labor and its basis for bourgeois intellectual production. Through an examination of three of Getrude Stein’s works – The Authobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Everybody’s Biography, and The Gentle Lena – this reading seeks to destabilize the negative values usually attributed to domestic labor.

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Published

2004-01-01

How to Cite

Meneghel, F. (2004). Pseudo-Inscribed Neutrality: the Servant Lena, the Housewife Alice and the Intellectual Gertrude all Misconceive the Notion of Value. Revista Estudos Feministas, 12(2), 116. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2004000200007

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2004)

Section

Ensaio

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