SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reproductive Rights, Playboy Bunny, Stupid Girls

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

The women"s movement: 1950"s and 1960"s were conservative times. Role of middle class women living in suburbia were to fill is embodied by the suburban housewife. Have dinner ready and ensure that the man is comfortable. Praise the man"s superior strength and ability and revere him. Honour the man"s right to rule you and your children he is the master of the house. American postwar domestic dream: successful bread-winners supporting attractive homemakers in suburban homes: both men and women supported the predominant themes of domestic containment in the 1950"s. Majority with more women agreeing than men felt that men should wear the proverbial pants in the family. Songs reinforced and suggested the appropriate roles and relationships between teens as they became men and women. Possessive titles e. g. bobby"s girl: women should find fulfillment through their men rather than work and the development of their own talents out of the household.