Heartland (Book) chapter 2.1: The Grandmothers Came Forward Part 1
- Sarah Poet
- Jun 3, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Aug 6
The home was on top of a mountain and he owned seven acres of property. Well, the bank owned it, but I had no rights to the property, of course. I was just the girlfriend that had moved in. I had no contract.
Women over time have made agreements - both spoken and not, written and not, legal and not - both for love and in exchange for the resources that they and their children have needed.
Think about it. In the last three generations of your family, what were the women’s relationships like with men and with resources?
If our grandmothers couldn’t get a library or credit card, they were making tandem choices about partnership and resource acquisition.
Various women in my family have married for love and worked hard in factory jobs, or gone without, or stayed with men who were abusive in order to have the resources they and their children needed. They have remarried for security, secured more education to secure more income, stayed quiet about atrocities in order to keep a roof over their heads, and have likely made more choices and sacrifices than I can even imagine.
