The concept of “The American Dream” is something that is very subjective. The idea of a woman living the perfect suburban life; married to a wealthy man, with multiple children running around the dream house that she has to make sure is constantly gleaming seems a little tiresome to me. I’m very curious as to why this ‘mystique’ was considered the epitome of femininity since it seems to me that the appeal of this ‘perfect life’ is something that is mainly steered towards the white middle class. What could the reasons be for such a mundane and humdrum life to have such appeal, to the extent that it proved a higher level of femininity?
I believe that the idea of the suburban housewife might have been set out as desirable by an unfortunate need for patriarchy in this country. Granted that these concepts of the “Ph.T.” wife and “the American dream” were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, it is very beneficial to have a more foreign and modern viewpoint on these concepts, which I believe are still prominent in many parts of the world today. The concept of “the American dream” itself is very interesting since I strongly believe that it varies quite a lot from different perspectives. For refugees living outside of the USA, “the American dream” is to be able to take sanctuary in the land of the free and raise their children as Americans. I …show more content…
Women were so struck by this mundane idea of femininity that birth rates increased, the marriage age decreased, and women were giving up educational opportunities simply because it was thought to be “unfeminine”. This justification of femininity is appalling since women struggled for a century before this in order to have the right to be educated and to work, so what made them throw that all away? I believe that it might have been the concept of
I believe that the idea of the suburban housewife might have been set out as desirable by an unfortunate need for patriarchy in this country. Granted that these concepts of the “Ph.T.” wife and “the American dream” were popular in the 1950s and 1960s, it is very beneficial to have a more foreign and modern viewpoint on these concepts, which I believe are still prominent in many parts of the world today. The concept of “the American dream” itself is very interesting since I strongly believe that it varies quite a lot from different perspectives. For refugees living outside of the USA, “the American dream” is to be able to take sanctuary in the land of the free and raise their children as Americans. I …show more content…
Women were so struck by this mundane idea of femininity that birth rates increased, the marriage age decreased, and women were giving up educational opportunities simply because it was thought to be “unfeminine”. This justification of femininity is appalling since women struggled for a century before this in order to have the right to be educated and to work, so what made them throw that all away? I believe that it might have been the concept of