The article Dressed for Adventure: Working Women and Silent Movie Serials in the 1910's by Nan Enstad tries to understand women's labor in the 1910's which in this time the suffrage movement evolved, and large-scale strikes began in the industries now dominated by women. The article mentions different serials but the one predominantly used to make claim to the comprehension of women's labor in the 1910's is the serial What Happened to Mary. This serial is about Mary, a young working woman who encounters obstacles in which she rose and conquered herself, no man needed, and this went against the culturally perceived norms. These norms included that woman were "damsels" and needed all the help they could get, also that they were fragile and could
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With these coinciding, the serials reached many working-class women. One reason why they reached these women is because these women were allowed to use the wage they earned for luxury items and other pass times not originally being obtained by them due to their role in the family. Which is why the topic of such serials being about them and giving them fantasies or portrayals of goals, they interdependently had to reach as women in the working industry and what they will attain in respect to that.. In the serial What Happened to Mary, Mary was an orphan which allows her not to be tied to a class which was associated with a fathers or spouses labor recognition. This allows her the "freedom" to work to achieve a higher class and job which many women at the time could not achieve due to cultural norms and more. The historian Kathy Peiss agrees and points out that the culture of consumers at the end of the 19th century was a place where women could distinguish themselves apart from families and communities. This leads to the idea that in American history this was a call to action in launching women's equality, especially in working environment, helping in relation to the start of the women's …show more content…
Women were one group who faced one of the most drastic changes in which they broke tradition. They worked outside home to make an income. They, in a non-derogatory way, didn't put their families as a priority at times. The document "The Women Who Toils" by Bessie and Marie VanVorst, allows the reader to visually picture the ideals of different women's reasons to have a job. Women obtained jobs for different purposes, some needed more income for their family, some wanted extra money little luxuries, others were in a subconscious need for independence with the ability to provide for themselves effectively. The "The Woman Who Toils" was a piece that directly touched the women of working class because the writer of the document actually went into a factory (workplace) and firsthand heard why the woman were essentially "working" and there was no significant commonality between the women. This conclusion rests on the fact women were becoming more independent on their own and their ideologies of living life with the new gained independence allowed them to choose many different paths. With the different paths that these working women took, it strays historians view of how they (working women) thought in this time period because there were many different
With these coinciding, the serials reached many working-class women. One reason why they reached these women is because these women were allowed to use the wage they earned for luxury items and other pass times not originally being obtained by them due to their role in the family. Which is why the topic of such serials being about them and giving them fantasies or portrayals of goals, they interdependently had to reach as women in the working industry and what they will attain in respect to that.. In the serial What Happened to Mary, Mary was an orphan which allows her not to be tied to a class which was associated with a fathers or spouses labor recognition. This allows her the "freedom" to work to achieve a higher class and job which many women at the time could not achieve due to cultural norms and more. The historian Kathy Peiss agrees and points out that the culture of consumers at the end of the 19th century was a place where women could distinguish themselves apart from families and communities. This leads to the idea that in American history this was a call to action in launching women's equality, especially in working environment, helping in relation to the start of the women's …show more content…
Women were one group who faced one of the most drastic changes in which they broke tradition. They worked outside home to make an income. They, in a non-derogatory way, didn't put their families as a priority at times. The document "The Women Who Toils" by Bessie and Marie VanVorst, allows the reader to visually picture the ideals of different women's reasons to have a job. Women obtained jobs for different purposes, some needed more income for their family, some wanted extra money little luxuries, others were in a subconscious need for independence with the ability to provide for themselves effectively. The "The Woman Who Toils" was a piece that directly touched the women of working class because the writer of the document actually went into a factory (workplace) and firsthand heard why the woman were essentially "working" and there was no significant commonality between the women. This conclusion rests on the fact women were becoming more independent on their own and their ideologies of living life with the new gained independence allowed them to choose many different paths. With the different paths that these working women took, it strays historians view of how they (working women) thought in this time period because there were many different