Prompt:
*Need to integrate specific details, examples, theories, and concepts from the different videos and material on Week 10 pertinent to the topic. Use in-text citation to provide depth and breadth to the discussion, both for the initial post and for the response post.
Answer all items in the prompt.
Identify and describe the meaning of gendered organization of residential space based on the reading notes on “Women in Metropolitan Life, Migration, African Americans”, and the screencast: Women in Metropolitan Life.
*Screencast: Women in Metropolitan Life
Video length: 2m 41s
This resource highlights the main themes related to women in metropolitan life, female domesticity, and gendered ideologies related to housing and the use of space
Integrate specific examples from the videos on the module this week pertinent to the topic of gender/women in metropolitan life and discuss the concept of gendered public spaces, clearly integrating in-text citations of specific examples from the videos in the module.
Video: 1950 Housewives
Clip: Season 1 | 9m 14s
Most middle class women of the 1950s became homemakers.
This video briefly explains the origins of the feminist movement and the issues the movement sought to address, specifically in relation to choice and challenging the “cult of domesticity” or “female domesticity”
Video: Awakenings
Clip: Season 1 | 4m 54s
During the 1950s women were expected to get married, have children and live happily in the suburbs. Advertising and television perpetuated this ideal of women. Jobs were usually low paying and dead ended.
Video: The Feminine Mystique
Clip: Season 1 | 3m 7s
In 1963 Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, and exposed he happy homemaker myth. Many women wanted the opportunity of a career of their own.
This was in response to the “cult of domesticity” or “female domesticity”
Need to integrate specific details, examples, theories, and concepts from the different videos and material on Week 10 pertinent to the topic. Use in-text citation to provide depth and breadth to the discussion.
Sources:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/women-eschew-wall-streets-boys-club-and-its-glass-ceiling
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/women-eschew-wall-streets-boys-club-and-its-glass-ceiling
https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/aboutfheo/history
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/meet-players-freedom-riders/