" In this show the audience has to vote on who they feel is the most beautiful. In a recent episode, the audience chose a girl that was boyish and did not represent traditional Chinese roles (Zhengying 2006, p
These men began to rely on the women and children to make ends meet, further securing the place of women in the workplace. While it was clear the role of men was changing in response, these changes were not accepted without difficulty (Allen, 41)
Men, on the other hand, could now freely pursue sexual activity without thoughts of family or responsibility. This shift, unprecedented in history, allowed women to assume responsibility for their own sexuality, and forced men to give the power over family planning to the female (Cawthorne, 45)
As in previous wars, the males were sent to combat, whereas women served as a sanctuary for soldiers. While this alone did not shape gender roles for the duration of the war, it did reinforce the tendencies for women to serve as support for males, a common sociological trend for gender relations (Goldstein, 50)
But with the Progressive and Labor movements of the early 1900's, the plight of women workers was used to promote woman suffrage. Working women began to push for the right to vote in order to convince legislators to pass laws to protect their working rights (Landau, 35)
While one-half of single women were employed, only one fourth of married women were employed, showing again a clear definition of women in society. As in previous years, the sociological trend was for single women to appear as objects of desire and independence, but on marriage, were to revert to wife and mother (Milkman, 22)
While women had been in the workforce previously, their role was often still as educators, retail sales personnel, and other non-tasking roles. For the first time, women were asked by their government to join the labor force as skilled laborers, welders, and other traditionally male roles (Rupp, 63)
This change, while seemingly subtle, was a clear indicator of the changing role of women in society. Rather than accepting life as mother and homemaker, women were clearly seeking a new role, that of a powerful, attractive, sexy force (Tranquilla, 2)
From the female educator standpoint, the gender role shift allowed them the ability to have some political power over the classes taught in the school system. These female activists, firm in their role of peacemakers and educators, were convinced the teaching of military strategy in the public school system would depart from the education of America's youth (Sullivan, 512)
On the other side of the argument were the predominantly female educators, whom had previously often been excluded from education entirely. The now female oriented classrooms quickly became a battlefield of sexes, showing again the sociological shift of America (Zeiger, 150)
Unlike other islands in the West Indies, women were the majority of slave labor in the fields throughout the era of slavery, and their reproduction was also vital to the survival of the system after importation from Africa was curtailed. From the colonial era to the present, the "internal marketing of foodstuffs in most West Indian islands" has been "dominated by women," and female hawkers were always a common sight (Beckles 4)
Unlike other islands in the West Indies, women were the majority of slave labor in the fields throughout the era of slavery, and their reproduction was also vital to the survival of the system after importation from Africa was curtailed. From the colonial era to the present, the "internal marketing of foodstuffs in most West Indian islands" has been "dominated by women," and female hawkers were always a common sight (Beckles 4)
Spanish settlers first arrived in 1536 and had destroyed most of the native population by 1550, and when the English arrived under the command of Henry Powell the island was "virtually deserted" (Juong and Noelle 149). Arawak Indians kidnapped from the Guiana coast were enslaved there and taught the whites how to grow various crops, but "at no time were American Indians a significant demographic factor in Barbados or capable of sustaining an independent American Indian society there" (Breslaw 7)
Kitts, Trinidad and Jamaica. In 1938, a general strike in Jamaica left 46 people dead and thousands imprisoned (Browne 149)
Throughout its history, Barbados has been famous for its mild climate and white sandy beaches, which are unique in the West Indies. Although the majority of the population now lives in the capital Bridgetown, in the villages "live many of the maids, security guards, cooks, taxi drivers, and the other minions of the tourist industry" (Gmelch 16)
British law, customs and religion were dominant, and all political and economic power was held by whites until independence in 1966. Even after that time, whites continued to control the economy, even though the state and civil service were taken over by blacks (Stoddart 61)
Josephine watched her through the keyhole and thought that she was making herself ill, but Louise told her to go away. Far from being sick "she was drinking in a very elixir of life" and had "a feverish triumph in her eyes" (Chopin 158)
She dealt openly with questions of marriage, sex, and women's emancipation from home, husbands and children which were considered unusually frank and realistic by 19th Century standards. Her stories reflected an "unconventional attitude of the heroine toward marriage as a reflection of her unconventional attitude toward herself" (Davis 1982)
She is a backseat driver who complains that she does not like him to go more than forty miles per hour, and suggests that he should see a doctor. As usual, Walter hardly listens to her at all and she appears to be "grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd" (Thurber, 1979, p
Her family also supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, though, and Chopin's attitudes toward blacks were hardly sympathetic. In short stories like "Neg Creol," for example, even the freed slaves were always shown as loyal to their former masters, and this is what most white Southerners of the 19th Century would have expected, but not Third Wave feminists of the late-20th and early-21st Centuries (Toth, 1992, p