1. In 1963, Betty Freidan’s book, The Feminine Mystique was an immediate best seller. For many years Freidan's interpretation of the 1950’s has been the backbone of discussions surrounding women’s history during this era. Her premise, however, is countered by Joanne Meyerowitz in this week’s...
2. Identify two historical developments during the 1950s or early 1960s that you see as shaping women's 20th century women's history greatly. How did those developments shape women's experiences? How do Mexican-American women's experiences play into discussions of 1950s middle class domesticity? Please remember to...
4. As during the Great Depression, women's behavior and ideas about gender changed during the War. Did you observe examples of traditional ideas about gender continuing during the 1940s? Looking ahead, do you see WWII as having a conservative or liberatory impact on American women?...
Analyze a Primary Source from WASM or any primary source linked in the weekly reading since the last Primary Source Analysis. This can be a photograph from the Life Magazine photoshoot; or from one of the documents in a selections we read from Women and...
1) Review the trial and cast your verdict. How do you find President Truman? Guilty or Not Guilty? Discuss why you reached that decision. https://www.hnn.us/article/hiroshima-harry-truman-on-trial In the 1950s the United States enjoyed a broad-based, unprecedented level of prosperity. Rising purchasing power, expanding credit, and...
Historical artifacts can teach us a great deal about the past, about daily life, hopes and aspirations, skills and needs of individual women or groups of women who used or produced them and passed them on. HIST474HistoricalArtifactEssayGuide.pdf ...
Identify and discuss the basic ideals and principles of American democracy and how they are applied in our republican form of government. 2- Identify the most important Supreme Court cases and executive actions and their impact on law and on our society HSO: ...
1. What was new information for you about women and the Great Depression in the United States? Provide examples and quotations and share this new understanding about women's lives (may be about a specific group). 2. List three essential understandings (different from above) about...
1. We, as students of women's history, can't seem to escape "Domesticity." How does domesticity play a role in shaping women's experiences, women's concerns, or women's responses as they grappled with labor conditions, racism, urban crises and more? Consider one of our topics this...
We can often see how media influences culture if we look at specific examples from the past. This week, you will look at how the media from the 1960s and 1970s had an impact on the culture that followed. This was a period in history...