HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Term Of Endearment, Shakers, Social Issue
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Parents exercised less control over their children"s choice of mates. Pet names: in letters they start to say honey, sweetie, darling. Husbands still remained the unchallenged head of the household. Marriage starts to shift, instead of marrying just for money, hard worker, or anything else, they start to marry for love. Parents start to exercise less control over who their children are going to marry. Cult of domesticity (cid:498)separate spheres(cid:499: men- public. They went to work: women- private. Try to make the home a refuge, safe place form the scary outside world. Women"s place is at home but also on a pedestal. Woman"s place was at home and on a pedestal. Working- class women had to work (cid:498)discovery(cid:499) of childhood. Children needed the attention of adults until the age of 13 or 14. Raising children became a family"s main function. Less children: each received more attention.
