HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Circular Reasoning, Janis Joplin, Joyce Johnson
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The other fifties: beat women and unwed mothers. Kinsey reports revealed women were having premarital/extramarital sex, which opposed popular belief that women only had sex in marriage. Women"s involvement in wage labor continued to grow even though men were back from war and reclaimed their initial pre-war jobs -- this opposed the popular model of women homemakers and domesticity. Women whose lives did not adhere to the idea of what constituted the ideal. Statistics were underreported but there was an estimated increase in births out. Illegitimate is a term that was used/socially constructed, derogatory connotation. Rhetoric surrounding single pregnancy prior to wwii. Negative environmental conditions led some women to have a propensity. The bad morals were caused by a negative, unhealthy environment for bad morals, immoral sex. Seen in reform work aimed at bettering social environments. Women were expected to keep the child. No effort to restore her marriage ability. New explanations for single pregnancy emerged post wwii.
