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I thought it was interesting how women waited until they were much older to marry than the other groups we have read about. Were there any other groups who waited as long as the Irish or was it just them? --Ashley Wilkins | I thought it was interesting how women waited until they were much older to marry than the other groups we have read about. Were there any other groups who waited as long as the Irish or was it just them? --Ashley Wilkins | ||
| − | + | Diner mentioned other ethnic groups and made it seem like it was only the Irish who waited. I found her discussion of marriage of Irish Americans interesting. Young women were so eager to rush into jobs when they were single, but when they were no longer economic burdens on their families and married, they were eager to stop working and become mothers. I think she painted a pretty bleak picture of their marriages: that at best, the relationships were characterized by irritability and separate spheres.--Amanda | |
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I've always thought this was interesting, that even though the family needs the money and needs things to get done, they still have strict gender divisions. As quoted on page 103 of Stephanie Coontz article, "World-class families did accept a clear division of labor on the basis of gender, however, and often formulated it in terms of domesticity." However, I also liked that she included (even if a lot later in the article) that when the housewife was sick, the husband or males or children had to take on the 'women's work' because there were no servants or anyone else to do it. --Ashley Wilkins | I've always thought this was interesting, that even though the family needs the money and needs things to get done, they still have strict gender divisions. As quoted on page 103 of Stephanie Coontz article, "World-class families did accept a clear division of labor on the basis of gender, however, and often formulated it in terms of domesticity." However, I also liked that she included (even if a lot later in the article) that when the housewife was sick, the husband or males or children had to take on the 'women's work' because there were no servants or anyone else to do it. --Ashley Wilkins | ||
