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The caption notes that it was rare to see women on a breadline/soup line during the Depression, which I found strange considering the Orleck article on housewives. However, I googled some pictures, and it seems to be true. Weren’t women doing everything possible to provide for their families? So why not stand in breadlines? Was there some kind of masculine association with it? You’d think standing in a line for handouts would actually be emasculating. Maybe it was because men were expected to provide for their families, and this was just another way to do it. -- Taylor Brann | The caption notes that it was rare to see women on a breadline/soup line during the Depression, which I found strange considering the Orleck article on housewives. However, I googled some pictures, and it seems to be true. Weren’t women doing everything possible to provide for their families? So why not stand in breadlines? Was there some kind of masculine association with it? You’d think standing in a line for handouts would actually be emasculating. Maybe it was because men were expected to provide for their families, and this was just another way to do it. -- Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | This reading of Ann Marie Low's record of the "dirty thirties" really projected a vivid image in my mind as to how bad the worst drought in US history was. It was a very unfortunate timing for Ann Marie Low, who was a young woman with goals. Because of both the extremely harsh drought, and the Great Depression in the 1930's she remained stuck in the Dust Bowl throughout her young adulthood. While reading this I couldn't help but picture her as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in the beginning scene of the movie. Life on the plains seemed difficult enough, but despite the conditions which were worsened with dust and depression she devoted herself to her family and their farm. I found it interesting despite all this going on she still was striving to get a jobs teaching; and not to make money for herself, but for her family. The last major thing, and perhaps most important, I found in the reading was that she believed matrimony to be a threat to womens' independence. Because married women were supposed to rely on the husband during the depression, this steered her away from matrimony. -David Fitch | ||
