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Chapter 7 Readings

Chapter 7 Readings. Naomi Wolf. Representative Works. The Beauty Myth The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries “Guantanamo Bay: The Inside Story”. Brideland. White wedding as fantasy The Event

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Chapter 7 Readings

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  1. Chapter 7 Readings

  2. Naomi Wolf

  3. Representative Works • The Beauty Myth • The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot • Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries • “Guantanamo Bay: The Inside Story”

  4. Brideland • White wedding as fantasy • The Event • A theme park of upward mobility • It has very little to do with the relationship—the marriage • Why do we continue to buy into the fantasy today?

  5. Weddings in the US • Average wedding in US costs $28,000 • Wedding Industry makes well over $80 billion/year • Jaclyn Geller, Here Comes the Bride • Chrys Ingraham, White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture • www.indiebride.com • www.unmarried.org

  6. Susan Lehrer • Representative Works: • Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women, 1905-1925

  7. Family and Women’s Lives • Today’s typical family is really not typical at all • Only 21% are “traditional” married with children • The term “traditional family” is only applied to certain groups and not others (primarily white, middle class) • “Family” changes with social and economic shifts in the larger social world

  8. Family and Women’s Lives • Many women’s reluctance to plan a career reflects the reality that they are expected to fit it around everything else – do you agree with this statement? • Different family members experience the same family very differently – do you agree with this statement?

  9. Family and Women’s Lives • 41% of births are now to unmarried women • Wage Gap: women heading households are more likely to be poor not because there is only one wage earner in the family but because that earner is a woman • Households headed by single women are twice as likely to be poor than households headed by single men

  10. Family and Women’s Lives • Definition of marriage itself is changing • In times of social change, ideologies advocating a return to an earlier “golden age” surface – why? • The challenge is to creatively respond to changed conditions, and to help that change in ways that will enhance rather than stifle people’s lives

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