Thursday 25 July 2013

Assimilated Women, Isolated Women


Mary Malone writes:
Women in particular are heavily hit by being assimilated into the managerial class. Frequently, they move to a town far away from their family to further their career or, more usually, that of their husbands. When children are born a woman will often work part-time while the man continues to concentrate on work.
Although a woman may make friends amongst her own kind, very likely she will give up the support network of her mother and sisters, female cousins and aunts. At the birth of her children her mother will not be present, but her husband.
The husband not only has to work but also he is forced to provide a level of emotional and practical support which a man is not equipped to give.
Hence, isolation, despair, proscribed drugs, and an unhealthy reliance on bureaucratic structures that provide a shadow of what a woman once received from society.
By marrying and moving far away from her home she has lost the identity she once had, one that was based on family, people, religion and region. She can only relate to new 'friends' through the common attitudes of her class as handed down by the television and the Authority press 
Of course, she has been indoctrinated in right and wrong, and she is aware of her superiority over the peasant women, and the oppressed women of foreign countries, so why isn't she happy?

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