WOMS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Total War, Mixed-Sex Education, Nuclear Family

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS202
• Professor: Shalon Hallager

Document Summary

Women and total war: we need them and their efforts on the home front. Growth of welfare state: britain 1918 maternal and child welfare act (clinics, sheppard-towner maternity and infancy act (us 1921, protonatalist policy want women to have a lot of children after war; more soldiers; traditional household belief. Grief after wwi; gained nothing; senseless war. New public role for women; mourning represents the (cid:374)atio(cid:374)"s sad(cid:374)ess. Monuments for mothers (not the nurses/others actively involved in war) honoring women for the sacrifice of husbands, sons, etc. Participation based on their level of suffering/losses. After a few years, monuments for women and their contributions are created. At first it was based on losing their loved ones, and then eventually recognizes the (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)s" (cid:396)oles (cid:449)ho helped (cid:449)i(cid:374) the (cid:449)a(cid:396) (cid:894)i. e. (cid:374)u(cid:396)ses(cid:895) Told to go back home after wwi. First look in russia: more active / less sexualized advertisement of women. Illegitimate children had no rights or legal standing.