THTR 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Libido, Ethel Merman, Upper Class
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Annie get your gun and u. s. 1940"s & 50"s zeitgeist. Sharpshooting was a vaudeville performance in the early 1900s (takes place then) Revolutionary - written about and for a female role, about a non-enenue female character. Annie didn"t spend a lot of time learning etiquette. It is illegal for a woman of any age who is married to do any work outside of her household (only really applied to white women) Persistent systemic discrimination keeping women out of the workforce. Young girls studied different subjects in elementary school (etiquette classes, cooking, mannerisms, etc. ) Way more limited if you weren"t white or if you had an accent (could be marked as an outsider) Mobilized 16 million u. s. men into the military. In some states that ended up being over 50% of the population. Maine had the highest amount of male population disappear (54. 6% of males) Georgia had the lowest amount disappear (39. 9% of males)
