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Summary Of Grose Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier?

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Grose Jessica, “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier,” it is a New Republic magazine that was published in 2013. In her article, she argues that the males in our lives freshly started catching on more of the childcare, cooking, and cleaning. But, it shows unfair advantage on women. Grose starts building her credibility such as (personal facts, reputable sources, citing convincing facts, statistics) by using Aristotelian argument using emotional appeals and logical appeals; however, at the end of the article, her trying to appeal the readers’ emotions diminish her credibility and conclusively, her argument. In her article, Grose first build the status by exemplify a certain part of house-cleaning with her spouse after being closed in during Hurricane Sandy, and then she demonstrates some outlines with uneven division of work and cleaning the house. In her marriage it shows a comparison to the majority of women’s issue that does the cleaning in a relationship. Grose endure her reason by discussing that men does not commit to cleaning. The appreciation for a house to be clean goes to the women of the house; announcing the media that the men’s can do the cooking and doing childcare, but not cleaning the house; and finally, it’s just not enjoyable. Grose advocate a hypothetical solution to the problem, by making a diagram of showing who does which work around the house. At full length of her article, Grose uses countless solid sources that support her credibility and claim to

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