Golden Cages: Women's roles in the early 19th Century
Above is video providing the context of Henriette's life as a woman in American at the time. Women living in America in the 1930's had very clearly defined roles. They were to be housewives and their duties all lay within the realm of the family. Though more women were beginning to have jobs, the most accepted and encouraged role was still that of a happy wife and doting mother (Ware 1). One can imagine how this social structure could be extremely limiting and suffocating, reducing women to little more than pretty birds happily siniging in thire golden cages.
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