Unit 4: Is it a Man's World? (Tle G6_gr1)
Unit: Is it a Man’s World?
To
what extent did gender roles start evolving in the 50s and 60s?
Axe
2: Private and Public Spheres
The document
under study is an extract from the TV show “I Love Lucy, broadcast in the
1950s. We can see a family (wife, husband and a child). They are trying to decide
what they are going to eat for dinner. The woman is asking her husband and her
son their opinion on the matter. They reply back by saying that they do not
care what they will eat. They want her to make the decision and chose for them.
While the husband just sits there and read his newspaper.
Then, the wife is complaining because no one is helping
her: indeed, being a housewife, every day is the same. She feels lonely,
exhausted by her daily chores that she does on repeat. At some point, she has no idea of types of
meal she could cook, because she has cooked so many of them that she runs out
of ideas. She even counts all the meals she cooked in 18 years of marriage. Nevertheless, overlooks her exhaustion. He even makes
fun of her and never offers a real form of help.
Homework: Learn the lesson.
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