Early Modern Family Analysis

Linda Pastan uses her poem Marks to emphasize on how easily it is to judge someone for what they lack instead of what they contribute. Like many other mothers and wives in the 24th century, I sympathize with her. It is easy to feel unappreciated in these roles, simply because in reality, those roles come with expectations and standards put on them from society. It 's our history as women, it 's what we are expected to do, and we are expected to do it well. Take care of your husband, take care of your children and take care of your household; that is the job women were given and although times have changed; that stereotype still remains.

The problems that the Gallaghers have to face usually come from the family itself and even if most of the difficulties they encounter come from their social status, they are not necessarily directly connected to a lack of money . We can take the exemple of the relationship between Fiona and her younger sister Debbie: this last one got pregnant and decided to keep the baby despite her young age. Fiona decided that if she wanted to stay in the house her sister would have to get an abortion. In this example, the showrunners present a problem that can occur in a working class family without criticising girls who find themselves in this situation. Both sides can be understood, Fiona wants to protect her sister and assure that Debbie finishes High School, while the pregnant teenager seems to be ready to be a

At that time, these wives were only good for managing the household and showing off the family status. The women of this era spent most of their earnings on their clothes to indicate their social status. Women empowerment and feminism are two very important things which are greatly implied on present day. Sexism, though still present in some

In her article “I Want a Wife,” Judy Brady states she wants a wife, or rather she wants someone who performs the less desirable duties of a wife while she returns to school to become financially self-sufficient, and she elevates to the more superior role as the husband. In great detail, Brady points out that the wife is the primary caregiver of the children, single-handedly cares for the family’s personal needs, manages the household, as well as, does the brunt of the domestic chores; all the while, the husband remains non-existent. Moreover, she begrudgingly endures her spouse’s selfish emotional, social, and sexual needs, all the while knowing she can be disposed of or replaced without a second thought. Therefore, Brady feels it is better to have a wife than to be a wife. In his article “Not All Men Are Sly Foxes,” Armin A.

It is emphasized that gender roles are being the physiological effect, social effect, and behavioral and social effect of one which is identified by gender identity and also socially and historically. There are many expectations in gender roles historically. Gender roles vary from different traditions. In this world, and for the past decades, the world had an expectation that men had to have some source of income to bring into the house to live and have a job no matter what. The world just did not have expectations for men, there were women expectations of that woman took care of the house, like cook, clean, look after the children, serve food after their partner came back from work.

McMillan, the traditional role of women in the French society involves heavy domestic duties such as housekeeping, preparation of meals, child baring, harvesting crops, and tending to the farm animals. Upon the onset of the Industrial Revolution in France, women 's role changed with them becoming domestic helpers, factory workers, and washerwomen. This did not generally include women who had "bourgeois" status, because these women often became dependent on the financial support of their husbands; such women of upper-class status also had the tendency to send their own "children to wet nurses until" weaned. Further changes to the status of women in France became apparent in 1944, when French women gained the right to vote. From my own knowledge it was only during the 1960s when they won the right to work without getting permission from their husbands, in addition to the right to open personal bank

Such as being waitresses, food preparers, and street vendors. It was a change because back in their hacienda women were housemaids or would stay home and take care of house work. Although some women still struggled with being in the lower class and being in the city. They were stuck with doing forced labor with bad working conditions. The only way they would receive some kind of respect was midwifery.

Both share characteristics of family-orientation and domesticity, as stay-at-home mothers and main caretakers of their households, often performing “female-stereotyped chores (doing dishes, cooking, cleaning)”. While their husbands act as the source of income, Claire and Gloria are “neither shown on job nor mentioned an occupation”, strongly promoting this as the normalcy between the genders. Furthermore, more focus is put on the women’s feelings than it is on the men’s, portraying females as more emotional, even irrational, “although crying and whining are behaviors exhibited by men and women” (Signorelli). In the Dunphy family, Claire and Phil admits several times how their son Luke might not be the brightest child. Yet in the

The Filipino families are dependent on the father to be the bread winner. The mother is usually expected to stay at home and take care of the children even at the expense of her career. The traditional gender roles are noticeable in the novel because the women were either in the homes or in the Red Center. The men could have different kinds of jobs and even rise to a higher social status. Women were to remain the same all through their

Shut up in the house so much it stunk. Wouldn’t let nobody in until finally Harpo forced his way in. Clean the house, got food.” (227) Walker support the idea of the essential need of motherly love, even if the stereotypical father son relationship was nothing like a motherly relationship. Walker was able to redefine motherly love, through the use of these two characters, she demonstrates that this love does not only occur in the relationships between a child and their mother. Although through most of