SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Bread, Nuclear Family, High Standard Manufacturing Company
3 May 2019
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Women and the suburban experience (1945 1960) Women ejected from their factory/military jobs; were not happy: told to go home and have children . Christian dior post-war fashion: military inspired post-war women"s suit, 1950s suit softened shoulders with small waist, women would wear these downtown shopping, 18th century france image changed in 1950s. Another cult of domesticity again in 1950s: woman forced back into the home. 1950s: backdrop for better times , traditional nuclear family; mother at home nurturing, heart of the post-war posterity, perfect family life, connected to the suburbs, suburbs. Late 19th century: annex in toronto, housing built privately; financed. White bread ; very little diversity: offered affordable housing; more privacy, banks offered mortgages in 1954. Canadians owed . 69 in credit market debt for every dollar of household disposable income on an unadjusted basis, household credit market debt, which includes consumer credit, and mortgage and non-mortgage loans, totaled.
