HIS 146 Lecture Notes - Child Labour, Eleanor Roosevelt
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Sanger deferred to doctors instead of keep radical stance so women could get birth control. Leagally: although it was only offered to married, middle class, respectable women. The great depression: different for men and women, women could always go home, didn"t need job. Work: women lose job first, depended on kind of work. Family: women who can scrape things together lived a better life, homemakers could be central to a tight budget. Politics: once vote was granted, politicians didn"t want to listen to women. Women and the new deal: built upon original women"s rights ideas, roosevelt protected families, child labor banned, social security granted provided welfare for children and women, eleanor roosevelt, former activist accessory. Eleanor roosevelt- pg 567: women doing important work, but government is still all men, because women got vote, but don"t all agree on what to vote for, power is fading with solidarity.
