HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Cultural Hegemony, Secondary Source
20 Dec 2013
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Tutorial: miriam forman-brunell, the politics of dollhood in nineteenth-century america . Quotations will be evidence, not making your point. Footnote #4 in rutondo (1970) - secondary source. Footnote #1 in rutondo (miss maners) - primary source. Evangelical - child is born with natural sin. Rousseau: babies are born perfect in nature and then corrupted by society. Cultural hegemony : cultural norms of the elite, become world view of everything. Idea that children need to be protected from outside world. Rise of industrial capital reshaped north american ideals about girl and boyhood and the experience of growing up. Peoples start seeing home as refuge from economy. New ideas of womens and mens nature and new ideology of childhood among middle class then proceed to spread across entire society. Drop in birth rate in 19th century. To go along with children need to be protected and cared for (more attention give if less children) Most ppl worked, played and slept at home.
