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My Life and Women’s Studies

In: A Journey into Women’s Studies

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  • Geraldine Forbes

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From the time I was nine or ten years of age, I was troubled by the extraordinary workload that women had to bear. I grew up on a farm in western Canada where everyone worked hard. My grandfather drove a team of horses until he was 80, and the children, even the youngest, were assigned responsibilities. Life was not easy. In addition to outside work: growing wheat and other crops, caring for animals, cultivating extensive vegetable gardens, carrying water from two wells, and lugging coal and wood to the house for cooking and heat, there was housework: cooking, cleaning and washing.

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  • Geraldine Forbes, 2014. "My Life and Women’s Studies," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Rekha Pande (ed.), A Journey into Women’s Studies, chapter 18, pages 320-335, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-39574-0_19
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137395740_19
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