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Lesson 4 Essay

Lesson 4 Essay

Q 300-600 words (1-2 pages) Write a coherent essay (introduction, body, conclusion) discussing your reactions to the online materials (written lectures, songs, video clips, related documents in most lessons), as well as the lesson readings from Brian Ward's book, The Sixties. Choose several of these resources to analyze and to compare with each other. Be sure to provide a brief reference identifying the materials you have chosen.

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The ideal American middle-class woman during the mid-1950s turned out either to be the excellent wife or played the role of a mother or a hostess or volunteer with complete ease. As a matter of fact, in 1952, Simone de Beauvoir’s – The Second Sex vehemently showed glimpses of biases directed at women. As a result of this, the ideal image of the middle-class woman seemed so fragile that it gradually started to dwindle by the early 1960s (Class note: Origins of the Feminist Movement).