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I thought it was interesting how many of the women did not seem to identify with the women's lib movement. It seems that a lot of women were satisfied with their choices of staying home with their children in a more "traditional" role. I also thought it was interesting that most of the housewives volunteered in some capacity. My mother volunteered at the schools and through church but she would never consider herself an activist, it seems like some others were the same way. It was really interesting to see that a lot of these women lived similar lives in a lot of ways.~~Mary Beth Conrad | I thought it was interesting how many of the women did not seem to identify with the women's lib movement. It seems that a lot of women were satisfied with their choices of staying home with their children in a more "traditional" role. I also thought it was interesting that most of the housewives volunteered in some capacity. My mother volunteered at the schools and through church but she would never consider herself an activist, it seems like some others were the same way. It was really interesting to see that a lot of these women lived similar lives in a lot of ways.~~Mary Beth Conrad | ||
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| + | After browsing all the essays one thing that stood out was how good of a sample this seems to be. There were examples of alot of things we talked about in class. There were examples of poor farming families, independent city women, activists, docile housewives, various roles played by women in WWII, differences in how families were affected by the depression, immigrants, and alot more. I did not expect the essays to be so diverse or so broad in their scope. -- Landon Davis | ||
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| + | It appears that alot of the women were poor growing up, most of them worked at some point or another, most of them quit work when they were married, most of them were married (young), and most of them were fairly well educated more went to college than I expected. -- Landon Davis | ||
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| + | I also noticed that most of them avoided strong language, or at least it was left out of the papers. Again I did not read every word of every essay, but no agressive or controversial lines jumped off the page. -- Landon Davis | ||
