In this issue of Amplify, guest editor Rebecca Tucker talks about carrying on the work of previous generations of women in her family in growing her own vegetables
, my vegetable garden could also be a cost-cutting measure, helping me avoid ballooning grocery store prices while also cutting down on my environmental footprint and putting wholesome food on the table.
This sort of domestic multitasking – figuring out, at the same time, how to stretch a dollar, serve the community and dish up a good meal – has long been relegated to women. And our relationship to this kind of domestic labour, like our relationship to food, was also indelibly affected by the pandemic, as the competing priorities of housework and domestic labour drove women out of the workforce in record numbers, and new, hybrid work arrangements.
last year as the importance – and literal value – of women’s domestic labour became a hot-button topic. In the book, Federici writes that one of the main difficulties of getting other women on board with the campaign was that, simply, many were reluctant to validate domestic labour at all: Shouldn’t we, the thinking went, just stop doing it?
We know now, of course, that domestic labour has great value – socially, emotionally and literally. We know, too, that it has historically been unfairly gendered, and that both men and women benefit when domestic tasks are more equally shared. But as I plan my garden, I’m not resentful to be carrying on the work of previous generations of women in my family; I’m proud to have inherited their knowledge.
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