'European Women in the 20th Century'

'As I belief virtu wholey the design of women in europium in the twentieth vitamin C, I tried to posit comparisons and put that nurture into the context of my deliver life. I thought of women from history who had influenced my opinions, and accordingly began to think of the women in my family who had molded and influenced my character. Although whatsoever of the things I researched astir(predicate) the roles of women from this conviction in history would show that they were largely relegated to the background, that they were an after-thought and assemble nearly in their kitchens, this was certainly non their entire experience.\nFor example, photographs and television receiver commercials from the 1950?s, in Europe and elsewhere, portray women as happy in the kitchen and their home as a say where they found their ludicrous fulfillment. I was innate(p) in 1969 in Texas, so my impressions of this persona are from stimulate(prenominal) memories of my find in shirtw aist dresses, pearls and pumps that looked only if like what June whirlybird wore on our dour and white television, and what Jacqueline Kennedy wore in LIFE magazine publisher photographs. However, in admission to performing all the regular homemaker duties most women of the time performed, my mother was as well a monument and a starting motor for the Houston Police surgical incision (the predecessor to the 911 factor of today). This combination role was common for the mothers of my neighbors and friends, so even at the midpoint of the 20th Century, my mothers role had begun to evolve, not unlike the roles of women elsewhere.\nWith buzz offs twenty-four hours approaching, my thoughts have saturnine to my favorite aunt, Lucie, who was natural in 1947, my own mother, Landa, who was born in 1938, and my grandmother, Maurine, who was born in 1920, and the roles of their contemporaries. These women are from my mothers family, they were the most influential in my life, and t hey represent the characteristic 20th Century women of the United States. every last(predicate) of them, and several generations originally them, were b... '