HISTORY 3N03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Engagement Ring, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Social Purity Movement
16 Apr 2018
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The ways, in which the respectable working class of one halifax neighborhood married in the 1920s, examining how changes in the workplace and in the importance of consumption in the private sphere influenced this private ritual. According to the 1921 consensus, more canadians were married than any other previous time. Married women rarely found jobs outside of the home. Idea of romance is historically constructed; rituals of canadian romance had little to do with class. Romance and marriage meant different things to different people. Cultivation of romance was not cheap; it required the free time and abundance that only a mature industrial system could provide. Wedding was the rite of passage into adulthood. Traditional images of marriage as a holy hierarchy ordained by god competed with the newer concept of romantic love, which suggested a diminished desire to defer gratification to a heavenly article. Purpose of marriage shifted from procreation to happiness.
