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Good pickup Cat. I noted that the women that had it the most difficult growing up were women living in rural areas, especially those who lived throught the Depression. I liked the one story about the "huckster" who came around and brought the groceries and household goods right to the rural residences. I just learned where a word came from! All that said, my Grandparents were all teenagers during the Depression, and the experience was a drastic one for all of them, both the females and males... perhaps more scarring on many than World War II. At least during WWII, the possiblity of starving or being constantly unemployed seemed to have lessened. - Phil N. | Good pickup Cat. I noted that the women that had it the most difficult growing up were women living in rural areas, especially those who lived throught the Depression. I liked the one story about the "huckster" who came around and brought the groceries and household goods right to the rural residences. I just learned where a word came from! All that said, my Grandparents were all teenagers during the Depression, and the experience was a drastic one for all of them, both the females and males... perhaps more scarring on many than World War II. At least during WWII, the possiblity of starving or being constantly unemployed seemed to have lessened. - Phil N. | ||
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| + | I used a pseudonym for my mother. I thought that she was kind of conservative, until I read the other interviews. Even the more independent working women... did not appear to feel as if they were working for a movement, they just made the decisions that they made. I didn't read every line of each paper, but I don't recall Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan's names coming up often... and when they did... the women's responses were either negative, or guarded, rather than positive. - Phil N. | ||
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| + | My favorite paper was Justin's about Charlotte Corbett Parker. Being one of the foot soldiers of desegregation, and having all of the white kids ignoring her, must have been difficult. However, she went on to become an accomplished woman and doesn't appear bitter in spite of her difficult encounters with Jim Crow and desegregation. I think there is a lot we can learn as men and women from the civil rights generation of the Fifties and Sixties. It takes a strong person to just ignore the hatred being directed at them and channeling that abuse and treatment into a positive life experience... - Phil N. | ||
