Over the last twenty-five years, it has become increasingly more embarrassing to be a stay-at- home mother. ... In today's society, advertising is showing little girls contradictory messages, to be the "sex pot" but to still stay at home and spend money but not too much money, basically to be every mans perfect woman. ... The domestication and sexualization in the future for women is to be at the home. ... Then to come home to clean, cook and to still look amazing for her husband and children. ... " " Shopping for clothes, applying makeup and jewelry, or dating to meet a husband is o...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After years of staying home and living only to feed the mouth that anxiously demands, "Where's my dinner?... With newfound enlightenment Betty is able to follow her once suppressed desires, beginning an affair with the soda-shop owner, Mr. ...

• Word Count: 846
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A woman who did not wish to marry could find work outside the home as a missionary, ironically though, many religious orders required women missionaries to be married. ... The latent benefit to this was the demise of sweat shops which used many woman (and children) in the east but subjected them to unbearable conditions. ... Women were excluded from higher education and became more and more confined to the homestead regardless of whether the home was in a rural or urban area. ...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to functionalist theorists, it is efficient for society when one spouse remains at home and performs domestic duties while the other spouse works outside the home. ... The mother comforts children when they are hurt, gives a birthday party for the father, or does the Christmas shopping. ...

• Word Count: 2301
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate