Changing Gender Roles In The 1950's In Culture And Political Upheaval

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This week’s reading focus on changing gender roles in the 1950’s in culture, and political upheaval. In the African Girl for Paris, gender, and the role of a women shows a view of women to be under her husband and follow what he says. However, that did not really happen, and it appears that there is a change of gender given that African wife [name] does what she wants rather than her husband’s want her to do like domestic work. Ultimately, she leaves [why]. Then changing from the play is fashion which tells two stories of national culture, and anxieties over women’s work and mobility. During the social struggle, there was conflict over imaged public space, and this struggle falls on to the ideas of urban fashion for women. Fashion is a powerful

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