HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Higher Education, Talcott Parsons, Achieved Status
7 Apr 2013
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Probably written closely after the end of wwii: mentions that lysol can be used to guard your family against infection . Women at this time would have gone to the experts over their problems. It was seen as backwards if a women went to friends, mother, mother-in-law, sisters for advice. The north american 1950"s family saw themselves as ideal/living the ideal life that the world envied. The 1950"s housewife was made to feel guilty if she didn"t do everything herself (cooking, cleaning, child-rearing: very different from victorian women who had maids look after their children and clean. Media talked about how women could be completely useful in the 50"s: women worked in munitions family, on the land, in the air force. War showed how easily the gender division could be altered or changed: also showed how men could be easily immobilized to leave their families and go to war.
