HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Feminine Mystique
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Strict gender roles, women directed their attention to the home. Men were breadwinners, the home as a haven from the world. With the outbreak of world war 2, women were encouraged to enter. 1920-1960 8% jump in how many american people were married. Mothers spent their days taking care of everyone else carpooling. Many women got jobs doing work that previously for men only. Encouraged to put their energy towards homemaking and raising (cid:1) (cid:1) children 1950"s. Why so popular after world war 2: catalyst for this change came from the cold war (cid:1) Anxieties around nuclear war and the sense that there were dangerous (cid:1) forces in the us prompted a domestic version of containment centered on the home. Homemakers (women) were taught/thought to foster this sense of security women were expected to be happy housewives. House keeping monthly women"s magazine for middle class.
