HIST 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Sexual Assault, Baby Boomers
5 Dec 2012
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Canadian has have set separate gender roles. By looking at different societies and how they change these roles aren"t natural they are socially built and maintained. Ideas are cyclical and things like the cult of domesticity have a way of emerging decade to decade. Male public spaces over female private spaces. Female or male meant different moral responsibility. Male or female a different way of being human. Before the 19th century women could go in the public sphere. Rise in the 1840s changed social areas such as taverns. Pre industrial age women would go as travellers, visitors or could be the wife of a tavern owner or owned their own. Women did not go to taverns alone went in male company. Were encouraged to use women entrances only. Were pushed upper class women were to use the parlour. Different from the male space of the tavern. Removed from the street a bit further.
