The first instance presents the theme of domesticity in showing the relationships between men and women. In this aspect, the writer presents Linda, the slave girl as a person with the desire to grow and build her own family, with children and a home (Jacobs 2)
Plaintiffs in a wide range of cases can now seek not just compensation for economic damages and attorneys' fees but also punitive damages and damages for emotional distress." (Barrier & Warner, 1998) Many historians feel that wage work actually enabled women to develop a new sense of individualism and economic independence and in some cases that is true
But, senior members also have personal agendas that are not necessarily in synch with maximizing institutional productivity." (Gulati, 2000) Organizations like the NAACP and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have consistently stated that blacks and other minorities are not having as difficult a time finding good white collar jobs but they are realizing that those jobs may in fact come with 'glass ceilings' attached
Racism is perniciously perpetuated through discourse practices that include formal and informal policies, verbal, nonverbal, and written practices, what is said, and especially what is not said or practiced." (Lee, 2001) In conclusion, this report aimed to present views of how ever since slavery, femininity and race have at times posed problems for a vast majority of minority women throughout history
The frailty of humanity shines through her work and gives it substance and truth. As Wayne Lionel Aponte of the "Nation," writes, "This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtle social arrangements of the time" (Aponte pg)
It is interesting to note the class differences of slavery, the field slave verses the house slave. Growing up in the master's home, Jacobs didn't know she was a slave, saying, "I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away"(Jacobs pg)
In reviewing Spelman, Noddings says, "Jacobs, Spelman tells us, 'was acutely attuned to the political and psychological risk sometimes entailed in becoming the object of compassion'" (Noddings 62). In an article for "The Philadelphia Tribune," Leonard Kirby praises the restoration an republication as a valuable text to the "canon of both African-American and American Women writers" (Krivy pg)
As Nell Noddings writes in her review of Elizabeth Spelman's "Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering" which appeared in a 1998 issue of "Hypatia," "As Jacobs knew, this desire often serves to sustain the need for its own enactment; that is, compassion that brings credit to the compassionate may, paradoxically, support the very conditions that cause suffering. This concern is very close to the one I identified when I insisted on a distinction between 'caring for' and 'caring about'" (Noddings 162)