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The idea of “feminine relinquishment” was interesting. It seems strange that if you had a career outside of the home, that meant you lost you feminine qualities. But when there was an ideal perception of family, that locked women in those roles, it made it difficult to go anywhere else without consequences. I never thought about it as woman were living “dangerously” if women tried to juggle both work and home. Everyone seems to suffer for the wife’s aspirations. Who would want to leave the home if they felt they would destroy their family? I think that Farnham and Lundberg were vividly describing the moral dilemmas women were facing if they tried to work and take care of the family. -MHimes | The idea of “feminine relinquishment” was interesting. It seems strange that if you had a career outside of the home, that meant you lost you feminine qualities. But when there was an ideal perception of family, that locked women in those roles, it made it difficult to go anywhere else without consequences. I never thought about it as woman were living “dangerously” if women tried to juggle both work and home. Everyone seems to suffer for the wife’s aspirations. Who would want to leave the home if they felt they would destroy their family? I think that Farnham and Lundberg were vividly describing the moral dilemmas women were facing if they tried to work and take care of the family. -MHimes | ||
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| + | I thought these women were quite bold in some of their statements. I thought that it was interesting how they equated women working outside the home as becoming more masculine, as MHimes above me stated. They seem to believe that a woman could not possibly be feminine if working outside the home, which caused an internal struggle in women who worked while having household responsibilities, like a husband and children. They seem to really find danger to a woman's feminity if she is engaged in work, which in turn negatively affects men. They appear as advocates of the this new modern cult of domesticity that was emerging in the post war period, it seems. -abratchi | ||
==Taylor, Women Strike for Peace== | ==Taylor, Women Strike for Peace== | ||
