Commentary on Burning Incense Pledging Sisterhood Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills 1919
,“Burning Incense, Pledging Sisterhood: Communities of Women Workers in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. ... Somehow, I have the notion that there is more of a “sisterhood” among the lesbian population than there is among the heterosexual. ... Honig’s mention of women in the sisterhood having conventional families did not appear until well into the article. I was filled with elation on reading about how these women “shared” in work as well as in play. ... Their generosity in collecting monies from all in the sisterhood for a fund to be used for extraordinary expenses. What worthy reasons to form a sisterhood. ... Now for the disappointing portion of this commentary. Honig mentions in the reading that the “sisterhoods were not organizations that drew and bonded all women together. ... she also mentions that “it is important to remember that new workers did not have a group of sisters on whom they could depend.