Not Quite a
Clean Sweep: Rhetorical Strategies in
Groses Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier A womans
work is never done: many American women grow up with this saying
and feel it to be true. One such woman, author Jessica Grose,
indited Cleaning:
The Final Feminist Frontier, published in 2013 in the
Incipient Republic, and she argues that while the men in our lives
recently commenced taking on more of the childcare and cooking,
cleaningstill
falls inequitably on women. Grose commences building her
credibility with personal facts and reputable sources, citing
convincing facts and statistics, and prosperously employing
emotional appeals; however, toward the cessation of the article,
her endeavors to appeal to readers emotions debilitate
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Grose
perpetuates by discussing some of the reasons that men do not
contribute to cleaning: the exaltation for a clean house goes to
the
woman;
advertising and media accolade mens cooking and childcare, but not
cleaning; and lastly, it is just not frolicsome. Possible solutions
to the quandary,
Grose suggests, include making a chart of who does which
chores, dividing up tasks predicated on adeptness and faculty,
accepting a dirtier home, and making cleaning more fun with
contrivances. Throughout her piece, Grose uses many vigorous
sources that fortify her credibility and appeal to ethos, as well
as build her argument. These sources include,
sociologists Judith Treas and Tsui-o Tai, a 2008 study
from the University of Incipient
Hampshire, and P&G North America Fabric Care Brand
Manager, Matthew Krehbiel
(qtd. in Grose). Citing these sources boosts Groses
credibility by exhibiting that she
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Adscititiously,
her last verbalization in the article refers to her husband in a
way that emasculates the argument. While returning to the
introductions hook in the conclusion is a frequently-used
strategy, Grose opts to return to her discussion of her husband in
a facetious way: Grose discusses solutions, and verbally expresses
there is a immensely colossal, untapped market ... for
toilet-scrubbing iPods. I bet my husband would buy one. Returning
to her own espousement and husband is an appeal to ethos or
personal credibility, and while that works well in the prelude, in
the conclusion, it lacks the vigor and solemnness that the topic
deserves and was given earlier in the article. Though Grose
commences the essay by efficaciously persuading her readers of the
inequitable distribution of home-maintenance cleaning labor, she
loses her potency in the terminus, where she most needs to drive
home her argument. Readers can visually perceive the quandary
subsists in both her espousement and throughout the world; however,
her shift to humor and mordacity makes the reader not take the
quandary as solemnly in the terminus. Grose could have more
earnestly driven home the point that a womans work could be done:
by a
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