I had recently watched the Movie The Help and it’s interesting to read in the article everything that I saw within the movie. That of which was use of domestic workers to liberate the middle and upper class woman of responsibilities of child care, kitchen work, and other house chores. Not only was it a sign of status to be able to afford domestic workers but it’s interesting to think that in order for some woman to liberate themselves they domestic others. Within the reading they emphasize the idea of status amongst other things, yet this idea is more complex than just status. It’s in a sense an illusion in which white women rationalize hiring other women to liberate women. Yet in that liberation there employer is liberated and leave the domestic
