HISTORY 240                                                                                                KUTULAS

 

 

STUDY QUESTIONS

 

1. How does the nature of women’s paid work change over time?

 

2. Compare the values of middle class and working class women at the turn of the century.

 

3. How were women able to move into the workplace?  What were the social consequences of them doing so?

 

4. Compare and contrast the social identity of the true woman to that of the slave woman.

 

5. How have the four virtues of a true woman shaped the different groups of women we have discussed in class?  Frontier women?  Native Americans?  Slave women?  Young women working in factories?

 

6. Who was accused of being a witch?  Why?

 

7. How has housework changed from the colonial era to the 1930s?

 

8. Trace the societal and cultural understanding of motherhood.

 

9. Compare and contrast the true woman with the flapper.

 

10. How did feminism begin and how did it affect the perception of true womanhood?

 

11. How did the role of women differ in the West (while it was being settled) from the industrialized East?

 

12. How did women use the cult of true womanhood to their advantage?

 

13. Compare and contrast the life experiences of white middle class women, African American women, and Latinas from 1890 to 1930.

 

14. Describe the effect of work on the true woman ideal over time.

 

15. How does religion shape a woman’s life from the colonial era to the 1930s?