HIST 3349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alexandra Kollontai, Lanham Act, Iggy Arbuckle
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Women in wwii: 1941: defense public works act (lanham act) Federally-funded daycare: same thing as soviet programs in 1920s. Funding terminated in 1946 to make sure women returned to the domestic sphere. Increase in workforce participation among single and married women. *white, upper/middle class, collage educated women now being expected to work. Weekly readings: remembering the war years on the home front. Upset about the propaganda in the war that promoted it as the good war. Whirlwind dating was very common: mex-american farmworker on sticking together. Lived in company towns- want tools, right to union, better wage, transportation to farms etc. all demands met besides union. Dealing with same questions but dealing with it differently- american women"s movement does not exist independently. Trying to find a way to make women"s domestic work count in a soviet system- Women work in steel mills 40 hours a week then expected to go home and do housework: frank strokes, let mexicans organize.
