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Nye pointed out the difference between the girls and boys electric toys. I feel like this was a key point where toys got significantly more gendered. The boys’ toys, as Nye said, worked more with the production of electricity and learning how they worked. However, the girls’ toys used electricity but did not expect them to want or need to know how the electricity worked. –Megan Mc. | Nye pointed out the difference between the girls and boys electric toys. I feel like this was a key point where toys got significantly more gendered. The boys’ toys, as Nye said, worked more with the production of electricity and learning how they worked. However, the girls’ toys used electricity but did not expect them to want or need to know how the electricity worked. –Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | I thought it was interesting that he brought up the Christmas Tree and lighting the house as a form of how electricity was used. The reason is that by talking about the changes in how electricity influenced a traditional holiday also shows how much of an impact that electricity had on the average family. And as this impact also went into children toys and how they were played with. As Megan said, even that approach became gendered. I also found the argument that not only did electricity enforce gender roles, but it also changed them. From the first paragraph you get the sense that the expectations between genders and even children differed in how the consumed electricity. Also the reaction for feminists to how electricity could change the domestic sphere was interesting. Some were for it, and others against it. For the first time girls learned about domestic sciences, or home economics. (I may be wrong but is this how Mary Washington started?) The women learned how to work with the new electrical appliances, whereas the men learned how to make them. -Jenn Arndt | ||
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