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I too thought this article was very interesting and empowering. The different tactics these housewives used to ban together and create change brought many interesting images to mind. I really like how Moser points out that these movements were " 'an education for women'". However it is quite upsetting that it took these circumstances for this education to occur and for Americans to make the connection of the value between producing and consuming. '''I wonder did these movements outlast the images and ideals brought to mind by the 1950's?''' -- Meredith Bojarski | I too thought this article was very interesting and empowering. The different tactics these housewives used to ban together and create change brought many interesting images to mind. I really like how Moser points out that these movements were " 'an education for women'". However it is quite upsetting that it took these circumstances for this education to occur and for Americans to make the connection of the value between producing and consuming. '''I wonder did these movements outlast the images and ideals brought to mind by the 1950's?''' -- Meredith Bojarski | ||
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| + | I found all the Modern American Women reading really moving. It is hard to learn about a time where so many people had so liitle and were struggling to just survive everyday. When reading the first hand accounts it made it that much worse. I the description of those poor women who sit at the employment agency hoping for some odd job was very vivid. - Christine Wuebker | ||
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| + | I think the reading I found the most interesting was the letter from the 12 year old girl to Eleanor Roosevelt asking for a pair of skates because her friends at school werelaughing at her. This article made me a little mad. Here was a country with hundreds of women and children starving and all that little girl could think about was a pair of skates. Where were her parents telling her to be thankful for what she did have and telling her she should think abut all those who were less fortunate and maybe even do something to help them. - Christine Wuebker | ||
