Women’s Roles Throughout the history of the United States, women have held many different roles in social, political and economic classes. Before the Civil War, a woman had a traditional role in the home, working as a housewife. The fight for equal and voting rights started but was unfortunately not continued until after the war. With new technology and industrial advances, women’s roles in the work force increased immensely and obtained many new opportunities. Although before the Civil War, women rarely took a part in society, the war significantly changed women’s roles in many ways.
Friedan and Gilman’s work have formed the touchstones for the current feminist movements and will continue to play a huge role as women work to advance their rights further in the coming years. Gilman wrote “Women and Economics,” at the turn of the 20th century contributing to the foundation of political thinking surrounding the domestic causes of women’s economically dependent status. She developed her
September 19, 2006 Hst 328 Thur. 1:40 Nan Enstad’s Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure is an in depth analysis of working women in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. She explains how working women helped to shape the consumer culture of the period by the purchase of entertainment and clothing that was made for them alone. They also shaped the culture by their choice of fashion. Not only did these women engage in consumerism, they formed certain social practices based on the items they purchased and connected it all together with their workplace culture.
The centennial at philidiea was a global event that would showcase America’s strength, innovation intellengacne, and prosperity since its Declaration. The historc fair would be catalyst in the industrial revolution and America’s future in becoming one of the global superpowers. Many great inventions that were first unvieled at this Philidiea gathering would forever change society such as The Corliss stem power engine, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, Pennsylvania Railroad, Remington Typographic Machine along with many more. However the biggest reavealing was the the Corliss steam engine standing proud at 45 feet with a flywheel 30 feet in diameter President Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil started the Corliss engine and brought life to the fair on May 10, 1876. This massive symbol of the America’s ingenuity was at the center of Machinary Hall and would power the fair and the 800 other machines throughout the centennial exposition.
Apart from the social injustices, the progression and good far outweighed the bad. It was two steps forward and one step back while the economic effects were one huge leap forward and a just as big step back. There were more than a handful of inventions and discoveries that revolutionized American society, led to urban sprawl, made tasks exponentially easier, and were the centerpiece for recreation. Cars were mass produced and people decided to live outside the cities and take vacations more frequently. They produced many new jobs with the need for new roads since the American landscape was drastically expanding.
Banner's book provided large amounts of information pertaining directly to women in America. Her book was helpful, informative, and the main resource for my portion of the report. Meredith Goldstein-LeVande. Women's Suffrage. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sufferage/home.htm Meredith Goldstein-LeVande provided useful information on the anti-sufferage movement.
The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, which lasted from the 18th through the 19th century, had its positive and negative effects on the world. The many undesirable effects proved to be the reason for the positive results. Many great quantities of advancements and inventions were created during this period of time, which enabled the people to prosper into our current social structure. The Industrial Revolution led to many progressive advancements and inventions. These machines that were invented helped to make work more efficient.
This can be demonstrated through the examination of urbanization, the rise of new classes, theories (by Smith, Malthus and Ricardo), and factory conditions. The industrial revolution began with tinkers introducing new inventions that were going to dramatically improve the way people produced goods. These new machines (such as the water frames, cotton gins, power looks, and the spinning jenny) enabled different industries (like the Textile industry to produce products in mass quantities. In consequence, these new methods of production made other approaches such as the cottage industry obsolete. These new techniques may have allowed for ample production of goods and prices of goods to drop, ultimately increasing consumerism; inevitably though, it had a destructive effect on the old-fashioned methods of production.
Colton 3/26/07 Dr. Stanonis HIST 106 Tourism in the Big Easy In professor Stanonis’ book Creating The Big Easy, he describes how the city of New Orleans tried to discover herself through the first half of the 20th century. New Orleans was constantly trying to find her niche in an increasingly urbanizing America. In the early years of the 20th century she attempted to shed her past and convert to a city of factories, businesses, and conventions. Ultimately, however, the “Big Easy” embraced its colorful past and opened herself up to tourists. The automobile, rise of the middle class, and the election of Robert Maestri as mayor all led to New Orleans becoming a city devoted mainly to tourism.
This thesis will be a study of the representation of one urban women in one literary text studied. Starting with the Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie not a usual love story but rather one surrounding sheer desire, a representation of change in gender roles moreover the shift in world of work in terms of women moving upwards and the portrayal of women in an urban city also the fight of survival in a big city, in line with elements of realism. This thesis seeks to investigate the portrayal of woman in this text. By critically considering the roles of an urban woman in the text which will help demonstrate an understanding of the rise of female existence, success and the figure of a woman in social life. Lastly evaluating, if the author has portrayed the urban woman in a positive or negative way furthermore if the representation becomes the success or failure of the character.