FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Social Survey, Menarche

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Glozman

Document Summary

Females were perceived as fragile, weak and innocent: hymen: the thin membrane inside a girl"s vagina that is usually broken during her first experience of sexual intercourse. Tested in some culture to verify the girl"s virginity. Most girls to keep them innocent were not even told about menarche before it happened. Until the 1920 girls wore corsets, then they were replaced by bra"s, this is when shaving your legs and under arms became a normal practice. From boy to man: communal manhood: anthony rotundo"s term for the form of manhood in the 17th- Preparing for community and family responsibilities was considered more important then striving for individual achievement and economic success. Although becoming a provider and protector was important emphasis also developed on the importance of developing the individualistic character qualities necessary for becoming a man. During these generations both boys and girls had organized clubs were the same gender would meet, volunteering mostly, religious or intellectual groups.