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The long road of woman's memory

Chapter 15: The Business of Being a Woman
By Jane Addams
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A sequence of essays and reported conversations explores how women's recollections reshape personal and social life. Memory is shown to soften and transmute hardship into consoling narrative while simultaneously selecting and amplifying experiences that unsettle conventions, inform labor and community relations, and oppose the pressures of war. Drawing on community encounters and wartime observations, the work traces memory's dual function of comforting individuals and gradually assembling collective norms, and ends with a reflective account of interpretative memory as a practical guide for understanding experience and prompting reform.

The Business of Being a Woman

By IDA M. TARBELL

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What is the business of being a woman? Is it something incompatible with the free and joyous development of one’s talents? Is there no place in it for economic independence? Has it no essential relation to the world’s movements? Is it an episode which drains the forces and leaves a dreary wreck behind? Is it something that cannot be organized into a profession of dignity and opportunity for service and for happiness? As will be seen from the above, Miss Tarbell’s topic is a broad one, permitting her to discuss the political, social, and economic issues of to-day as they affect woman. Suffrage, Woman, and the Household, The Home as an Educational Center, the Homeless Daughter, Friendless Youth and the Irresponsible Woman—these but suggest some of the lines of Miss Tarbell’s thought. Though they may at first seem disconnected, she has made out of them, because of their bearing on all of her sex, a powerful unified narrative.

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