Analysis Of Jessica Grose's 'Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier'

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A saying that women have grown up hearing and have come to terms with it is: A women’s work is never done. Author Jessica Grose, wrote “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier,” published in 2013 in the New Republic. Although men have recently started taking on more around the house. Such as cooking, childcare, carpool, etc. Cleaning still is disregarded and unfairly falls upon the wife. Grose builds her case with personal experiences and/or facts, sources and statistics, and emotional appeals. Grose sets the stage by explaining a situation of housecleaning with her husband after locked in during Hurricane Sandy. She then explains how unfair the cleaning work in her marriage really is, which ties together with the larger feminist issue: who

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