Comments on: Replacing Women http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/11/20/replacing-women/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sarah http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/11/20/replacing-women/comment-page-1/#comment-161577 Sarah Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:56:51 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=4280#comment-161577 I find this especially interesting because I'm reading it in conjunction with your article on washing machine ads claiming to be liberating for women. I had started bubbling up an argument about how having a washing machine makes it unnecessary to have a laundress as a servant - and I think this article links right in with that. Technology is replacing human labor in a way that is simultaneously good and bad for both the economy and for societal treatment of the people who traditionally perform that labor. I love when you post these vintage ads, by the way - looking at things from a historical standpoint tends to mitigate the outrage that commenteers seem to feel about contemporary ads, and allows for a more removed intellectual and economic evaluation of the ideas behind the ads. I find this especially interesting because I’m reading it in conjunction with your article on washing machine ads claiming to be liberating for women. I had started bubbling up an argument about how having a washing machine makes it unnecessary to have a laundress as a servant – and I think this article links right in with that. Technology is replacing human labor in a way that is simultaneously good and bad for both the economy and for societal treatment of the people who traditionally perform that labor.

I love when you post these vintage ads, by the way – looking at things from a historical standpoint tends to mitigate the outrage that commenteers seem to feel about contemporary ads, and allows for a more removed intellectual and economic evaluation of the ideas behind the ads.

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