Topic: Comparison of the work of working class housewives in the 1930s to middle class suburban housewives in the 1960s and 1970s.

Order Description

Please refer to course readings to answer the question. Use at least 6 sources from the course readings. You are not required to research beyond the course readings.

Be sure to use proper citations.

Compare the work of working class housewives in the 1930s to middle class suburban housewives in the 1960s and 1970s. Consider, for example, how their work conditions

(e.g. housing, work implements), class position, and social status in the community, their neighbourhood and economy affected their work as housewives. Although there

are obvious differences between the two groups, do you see any similarities?

Course Readings:
Intro to Frager & Patrias, Discounted Labour, pp. 3-13;

Gottfried, ch. 4 “The Puzzle of Gender Segregation” in Gender, Work and Economy, pp. 44 -74.

Frager & Patrias, Discounted Labour, pp. 17-87;

Lyndsey McMaster, “Working Girls in the West

Frager & Patrias, Discounted Labour, pp. 91-157

Denyse Baillargeon, “Working for Pay and Managing Household Finances

Lara Campbell ch. 1“’Giving All the Good in Me to Save My Children’”

Jeff Keshen, ch. 6 “Civilian Women: ‘Two steps forward and one step back’”

Magda Fahrni, “Intro” and “A Politics of Prices”;
Ann Porter, “Gender and the Construction of the Post-War Welfare State;

Julie Guard, “Women Worth Watching”: Radical housewives in Cold War Canada

Veronica Strong-Boag, “Home Dreams: Women and the Suburban Experiment in Canada, 1945-1960;

Stephanie Coontz, “’Leave it to Beaver’

Ozzie and Harriet’: American Families in the 1950s”