The Woman, Mother Yet Domestic Servant

Our society, still too primitively agrarian, patriarchal and polygamous by far, turns the woman into an object of exploitation for her labor power. How do women manage to live out this peculiar dual identity? Which makes them, at one and the same time, the vital knot that ties together the whole family by their presence and attention - yet also makes them marginalized and ignored? The woman leads a twofold existence. Indeed, the depth of her social ostracism being equalled only by her own stoic endurance. In order to be able to live in harmony with the society of man, she envelopes herself in demeting and self effacing detachment. She sacrifices herself to this