Logistics underpins power – and logistics is female
‘It’s logistics.’ I often use this common phrase when planning and coordinating my everyday life. Work projects, social gatherings, medical appointments, household repairs, doing the shopping… Planning and coordinating such mundane tasks always takes up more of my time and attention than I would like. When I call it ‘logistics’, I tacitly acknowledge that everyday modern life is as complicated as shipping goods or positioning armies, logistics’ traditional tasks. And who shoulders most of these unpaid chores and labours of love? Across all demographics, it’s women. How did we get here? And how do we redistribute the burden? Suggestions lie in an unusual place: a women’s history of logistics. ….[READ]
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