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Gender Roles/Issues

Gender Roles/Issues. A Woman’s Place. Collins Type 1 – “Women”. Do this in your “Tunnel” notebook 2 minutes / 3 lines Write down your FIRST impressions/thoughts about the women in the pictures you are about to view. Focus on the women in the pictures

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Gender Roles/Issues

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  1. Gender Roles/Issues A Woman’s Place

  2. Collins Type 1 – “Women” • Do this in your “Tunnel” notebook • 2 minutes / 3 lines • Write down your FIRST impressions/thoughts about the women in the pictures you are about to view. • Focus on the women in the pictures • Write down your 1st thoughts/impressions • The only filter is that your language is school appropriate

  3. The Good Wife's GuideFrom Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955 • Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. • Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs.

  4. The Good Wife's GuideFrom Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955 • Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dust cloth over the tables. • Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice. • A good wife always knows her place. Note: This ‘article’ is presumed to be a hoax, but it sadly does reflect some of the attitude that existed toward women from the mid-1950s.

  5. Tunnel in the Sky • There are strong and able female characters • Helen Walker / Caroline / “Jack” • Women are put up in the cave while the men camp down on the ground where it is more dangerous • Rod initially has the view the in teams, women are “pure poison”

  6. Poll: Question to consider • Chivalry or Chauvinist? • Defining these terms

  7. Chivalry • Having the attitude that women should be treated with special honor and protected by men

  8. Chauvinist • Having the attitude that women are inferior in some way to men

  9. True or False? • By society… Women are treated the same as men. This poll is closed, but reflect on whether or not time has changed societies attitude toward women since the mid-1950s?

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