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They are doing a wage-worthy work but they are not paid for it. Instead the fathers think their duty is done when they give to the daughters as a benevolence what they, the fathers, think the daughters should have for their needs and pleasures.
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Waring (1988) gives a funny example of how men's activities are seen as the use of valuable time and hence are wage-worthy, while women's activities are seen as something they ought to do out of the goodness of their hearts, without time [...]
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[...] which produces the wages that, according to Ridout, were elicited by 'spontaneity' in the modern theatre. Recognising, thanks to Roach, that the wageworthy skill of any actor in any historical period is defined by a complex matrix of social, [...]
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