HIS 146 Lecture Notes - Hong Kong Economic Times
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Late 1890"s: more modern, young, new technology and behavior, pushed against tradition, greater personal autonomy, seen as either a good thing or something from hell. Feminism : new options at home, kenton: psychological, individual, spiritual, makes own decisions, independence, experimentation , mulholland: marriage should be love, freely chosen, divorce available. Wwi: u. s was neutral in first few years, would cost too much to fight, allied and business partner countries would have won without u. s help, u. s would have lost money, times of war generally give women opportunity. War and gender: new public roles(nurses, pro-war, anti-war, men are gone (women get age labor, volunteering support, private life support, gender imbalance, domesticity became important, distraction from suffrage, great migration. War shakes things up and brings new thoughts: could also bring policies on certain behaviors. Figure 8. 7- liberty bonds poster: sad, pleading, wearing american flag cap, message is that europe needs u. s help in the war.
