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    worked by slaves. However‚ certain families could not afford to be slaves or were not wealthy enough to own plantations‚ and these families had to run the farms themselves. Women during this time period were a part of what was known as the “Cult of Domesticity” which suggested that women were meant to be passive caretakers. This meant that women were expected to cook‚ clean‚ take care of the children‚ and to just generally be housekeepers. However‚ during the Civil War‚ many of the men went off to

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    Charlotte Brontë once said‚ “I do not think‚ sir‚ you have any right to command me‚ merely because you are older than I‚ or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience” ("Find Quotes"). In the early 1800s inspiration to begin a movement that strove for gender equality stemmed from ideas very similar to the idea expressed in the quote‚ along with influences from the actions of early abolition and temperance

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    Wendy Kozol

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    However‚ at the time of the photographs and articles written in Life‚ domesticity was defining the gender roles appropriate for the time. The photograph “On the Maid’s Night Out‚ Veep Presides Over Dishwashing” shows a woman wearing an apron washing dishes while a chair stands in the foreground of the photo with a dishrag hung

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    Egypt of the Pharaohs –– Notes from Readings Late Predynastic Naqada: one of the cultures in Nile valley One of the largest known in the Nile Valley during Pre-Dynastic Period Naqadization: Ousted‚ engulfed or incorporated other cultures: culminated in political unification and statehood; cultural unification occurred before political unification Gradual conquest and subjection of more and more extensive areas of Nile Valley until whole of Upper Egypt was under Naqada control Hunting and

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    Homeward Bound

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    book because Elaine Tyler May provides a unique perspective of how the Great Depression and the Cold War impacted family life in suburban America. May offers insight into the undeniable correlation between the newly found intense dedication to domesticity and the Cold War ideology‚ or what is known as “domestic containment.” This essay will provide a summary of Homeward Bound‚ what domestic containment means and the issues May associates with this ideology‚ and how it has affected U.S. society.

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    leaves no room but to question the place of women in the mist of all that heterogeneousness of sex and role. Queen Victoria-the manikin everyone wanted to resemble- was without any doubt the center of gravity that Victorian women revolved about. Domesticity‚ morality‚ motherhood and piousness drew the painting of the queen’s personality. Henceforth‚ Victorian women were piously patient‚ respectably devoted‚ virtuously moral and above all; angels in their households‚ a perfectly molded mix of submissiveness

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    Duality In Adulthood

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    That duality and the contradictions of young people coming of age are often especially acute for females who are simultaneously expected to assume nurturing‚ care-giving roles and to remain dependent and subservient (in which young protagonists are engaged in the process of separating from childhood‚ of making the transition from the security of family and then from peers to independence and maturity‚ and ultimately of integrating their lives into a community of adults). In the transition stage‚

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    Child Rearing (19th Century)

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    Homework based on the seminar: Domesticity and Protest: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century Wintersemester 2011/2012 PD Dr. Dr. h.c. xxxx On Education and Child Rearing [pic] March 1st‚ 2012 Annie M. Matrikel #: 2xxxxx Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse three short abridgments about education and child rearing in the 19th century. In the course of the essay it is to be examined who the writers were and how the texts

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    During the Second World War‚ both married and unmarried women worked in wartime industries and factories to take the place of men who joined the service. Although women didn’t play a significant role on the battlefields in Europe compared to males‚ it would be logical to conclude that women played an integral role in the participation and victory in WWII both at home and abroad. Yet when one considers their contribution‚ it is hard to imagine how much more they could have done given the conservative

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    inability to escape‚ particularly for Baum‚ the inability to escape the rapidly advancing technology during the 20th century. The technologies that are focused on in particular in The Wizard of Oz are those of electricity‚ machines‚ the body‚ and domesticity. The city of Oz is based on the White City‚ Chicago‚ and how both are built around the idea of beauty and stability‚ but cover up the sense of imperialism they hold. This is where Baum’s fear of capitalism and consumerism come into play and the

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