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Ceci est un cours décrivant et résumant la condition de la femme , surtout après la Civil War.
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Alan Brinkley ,The Nnfinished Nation
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2010
1. The middle-class
fam il y
2. The
charging
'
of Domesticité
' '
3. The cu It
4. The rise
of feminism
5. Woman and the professions
6. The new nom en
7. The clubwonen
8. Wo men suffrage
1. The middle-class
Middle-class :
the social group between the upper and working
classes, including professional and business
people and their families.
-
Economie deu . opened Opportunities for people to Oun
or wo RK in shops or businesses , to engage in trade to ,
enter professions and to adMinister organisations
Middle-class life
-
years Rapid /y
established
itself as the moet influential Cultural Farm of Urban
America
Solid and often substantiaI middle-class houses lined
Citystreets , larger in size and more etaborde in design
than the cramped. Function al rowhouses in won
King -
class
neighbor hoods .
, Like the Wealthy middle-class people 1-ended
,
to
Oun their homes
Worters and artisans were mostly renteras
-
Middle-class women usually remained and cared
for the household aHough increasingly they were also
,
able to hire servants ( immigrant
usually young un married
>
,
women )
one
of the aspirations of middle-class nomen
to escarpe from some of dudgery
was
housework
of
New household inventions → greatly improved
the character of life in
MC homes
e.
g : Cast iron Stove
-
replace Fireplace
(9840 s )
+ Cooks
gare
more Control over
food preparaO and
allowed to took several
things
-
MC diets were
charging rapidly
expansion and diversifiaO of American
agriculture : ability of distant Farmers to ship
goods to urban markets increased the
variety of foods
> Fruits and vegetable s difficult to ship Hitte
re
Frigerio)
, BUT familias had access to a greuter variety of meats
grains and dairy products '
→ a few households acqui red ice boxes wich allowed
,
them to keeps Meat and Dairy products Fresh for
several days .
-
MC people Considered Healthy or Fashionable now
-
MC homes : • The Spare , simple styles of 98ᵗʰ c. homes
gare way to the much more elaborate ,
eu en baroque household style
• had indoor the of
and Victorian sera
Plumbing
toilets by the
1850s • became larger • less common for
Chi Idren to Share beds
ParLors and
•
dining and for all members
roomS Separate from of a
Familly to Steep
the Kitchen became in the same room
the norm am the
Ong
Mc
2. The
charging Family
The transformation was the movement
of familias
from Farms to urban areas
sons and daughters in urban house holds much
more likely to Have the Familly in search of
iwork than they had been in the rural World
-
Familly itself had been the principal unit of economie
activity
distinction began to
emergé between
-
the public World
of the Norkplace and the private u of the Familly .
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