The Accident Of The 1920 ' S Essay

Motherhood was an expected part of the wife’s life. Woman would have a large number of babies right after each other although some babies would not survive. “High mortality rates must have overshadowed the experience of motherhood in ways difficult to

The decade of the 1930’s can be characterized in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America had been completely destroyed due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was up to the government and people of the 1930’s to "mend" America’s wounds. One man stood up to this challenge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He promised to fix the American economy, provide jobs, and help the needy. During The Great Depression, the crime rate had risen to an all new high. J. Edgar Hoover helped to create the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As America was restored, culture grew quickly. Dance clubs, new music styles, glamour girls, movies and sports were all popular forms of entertainment in the

Prior to the 1920s people were already not given equal prosperity. This can be seen in 1882 by the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. However, the ban was only against the immigration of Chinese laborers. Furthermore, Andrew Carnegie owner from the steel industry from 1973-1901 controlled the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by in the United States. Although Carnegie gained millions, he paid his workers little. Therefore, the 1920s did not give prosperity to everyone including those who were immigrants, the new technological advancements, and the economic difference in social classes.

The 1920's were times of cultural revolution. The times were changing in many different ways. Whenever the times change, there is a clash between the "old" and the "new" generations. The 1920's were no exception. In Dayton, Tennessee, 1925, a high school biology teacher was arrested. He was arrested because he taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of having violated the Butler Act. This was a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. The Tennessee legislature felt that teaching evolution was wrong because it contradicted the creation theory of the Bible. The Scopes trial received worldwide publicity. The press nicknamed it the Monkey Trial

The culture of the 1920s was unlike anything seen before. With newly found freedoms and booming industries, the 1920s were a time of prosperity where life was energetic and thriving. Evidence of this unique time in American history can be found in the artwork of the decade. The social changes of America in the 1920s are displayed in John Held’s magazine advertisement for Arrow shirts.

Discuss the challenges faced by three of the following groups: business, labor, the city, and farmers. How did each of these sectors endeavor to find stability through a search for order through organization?

The next main factor in the story is society's attitude towards illegitimacy. Any woman who bore a child out of wedlock was treated with disgust and held an air of shame and disgrace. This caused those who did happen to have their children out of wedlock to give them up and send them off to orphanages in hope their child would be alright. A lot of these single mothers tried to send their children to one such orphanage called "The Coram Hospital". An example is when Melissa, a young girl just found out she was pregnant and says "'And Mama? What about Mama? The disgrace. We'll both be thrown out. Destitute." This is a good example of the consequences of illegitimacy. If anybody found out about such circumstances the mother and her acquaintances would be thrown out and homeless. The writer includes this factual information in the story and it entwines

“Brought to Bed”, by Judith Walzer Leavitt, is the story of childbirth in America from 1750 to 1970, and details how women in America dealt with childbirth or being “brought to bed”, the fears they had and how they coped with those fears, as well as the shift from using midwives who came to your home and having a large, female support network surround you, to using doctors and moving from the home setting into a hospital. The book is divided up into several sections, and used the diaries, letters, and notes from both women who were patients and the doctors who tended to them. These chapters deal with the transition from home to hospital by outlining different reasons for why this shift may have occurred, and who the driving force behind this was. The author poses a thesis, “By examining closely the ways childbirth has changed, I hope to illuminate some basic aspects of women’s lives in the past while at the same time analyzing the evolution of medical and

Historians have previously disregarded the lives of these women out of belief that they were ‘objects of male sexual aggression with no sexual desire or expression of their own’. The museum’s permanent display of these ‘unfortunate women’ is limited to their petitions, which were written in hope that the staff would allow their child to be admitted into the hospital. Although the temporary exhibition, ‘The Fallen Woman’ has attempted to correct this through a sound installation, intended to give these women a voice, its source remains founded upon petitions. This means that the ability of the museum to uncover the history of unfortunate women is already limited by the availability of sources. Yet instead of using these petitions to gain as much information about these women as possible, the museum chooses to refer to them only in relation to foundling children. This ignores the context in which these mothers signed their petitions. Thus we must rely on alternate sources of information to understand the lives of these mothers. Evans’ article on London’s mass of ‘unfortunate women’ uses the Foundling Hospital petitions for such a purpose. She cites petitions in which women express their ‘great distress’ in handing over their children. They claim that factors such as ‘illegitimacy’ and ‘poor state of health’ is what forced them to make this decision. If Evans has shown that such details of these

Childbirth and Childbearing in Renaissance Italy for upper status woman, was far different than what childbearing is compared to today’s standards. In renaissance Italy it was said that woman only had one purpose and that purpose was to have many legitimate babies, especially for the nobility and upper status couples. From having these babies, the family could inherit a lot of wealth (King, M. L., 2003). This differs greatly in todays society, as now woman’s primary function is not only to produce children. Woman today are seen as equals to men, and have a larger significance than just having their husbands children. Childbearing in the Renaissance was not as easy or as safe as it is today either, as we will further discuss. This paper will explain the role of child birthing and bearing in the Italian Renaissance, everything from mortality rates, to wet nurses and this differs from today’s society.

Not only did the citizens look to gain information on the human aspect of pregnancy, so did the medical field. Much was left unknown prior to the 19th century about the obstetrical prowess of the human body. Speaking from a gynecological point-of-view, medicine knew very little about this aspect of the human being. Strictly from an objective view, doctors were thinking along the train of thought that when women had medical problems, they were centered in the womb, and it was only their energy that was misdirected. Also, women’s menstruation was not studied well until

I never worked harder in my life. It was no small task feeding fourteen men and boys, and two young children” (Diamant 115). The most feared and difficult of struggles in Dinah’s world is childbirth. It is considered a time of great fertility when most babies live. It is not uncommon for a woman to have one or more stillborn babies or to die in childbirth.

Although feminism was on the rise, the daily life for a woman usually entailed cleaning the house, cooking for the men, and possibly an occasional trip to the market for essentials. For women like Mrs. Mallard, this regimented schedule became incredibly monotonous. The women of this time period were also viewed as very fragile individuals who were incapable of coping with life-and-death situations. Her sister took extreme caution when telling Mrs. Mallard of her husband’s death presuming her unhealthy heart would fail from the news. However, what if the reason her heart was even diseased in the first place was from the stress her husband had placed upon her? Perhaps not everything about the situation was really as it

The theme in books by Sinclair Lewis1 relates to the time in which they were written. In both Babbit (1922) and Main Street (1920) Lewis shows us the American culture of the 1920's. He writes about the growing cities, the small towns, the common American man, the strong American need to conform, cultural integration, morals (or lack of in some cases), and he touches upon the women lib movement. All of these and more successfully describe the 1920's.

I was born in the 80s, at this time, my mother was 20 years old; I was the second child and the third pregnancy. Not uncommon in Latin America is a pregnancy without preparation, and following the protocol of a Latin family, I was not planned, the same way as my brother and sister, we were a result of a passion that didn’t think about the consequences of unprotected sex. However, the unplanned surprise brought together family and friends because I was the first baby girl in the family.