POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - P38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Shopping, Brm P48
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In order to feed, clothe, and house their families in a period when unemployment had made male breadwinning particularly precarious. In the process they dealt with the discrimination, negotiated insecurity, covered out space for happiness and amusement in one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century. As such it examines the place of young women workers within depression era discussion of employment and unemployment. Men"s" jobs, and as long as they planned to marry, they were hardly threatening to societal ideal pg 29: avoiding poverty or at least the appearing of poverty was of" crucial importance for young women in these years. The depress on years witnessed a clear shift in popular feminine attire from the fashions of the new day". Which were boyish, and androgynous , to those that emphasizes the female form, waists, hips and breasts p 28.