'European Women in the 20th Century'

'As I aspect well-nigh the place of women in europium in the twentieth ampere-second, I tried to correct comparisons and put that breeding into the context of my hold life. I thought of women from history who had influenced my opinions, and whence began to think of the women in my family who had molded and influenced my character. Although nearly of the things I researched intimately the roles of women from this clock in history would betoken that they were largely relegated to the background, that they were an after-thought and launch approximatelyly in their kitchens, this was certainly non their entire experience.\nFor example, photographs and video commercials from the 1950?s, in Europe and elsewhere, portray women as happy in the kitchen and their home as a part where they found their extraordinary fulfillment. I was natural in 1969 in Texas, so my impressions of this ascertain are from in-person memories of my give in shirtwaist dresses, pearls and pumps t hat looked unspoilt like what June pearly wore on our low-spirited and white television, and what Jacqueline Kennedy wore in LIFE clip photographs. However, in do-gooder to performing on the whole the regular housewife duties most women of the time performed, my mother was similarly a secretaire and a appetiser for the Houston Police department (the predecessor to the 911 actor 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, non unlike the roles of women elsewhere.\nWith mystifys daylight approaching, my thoughts have glowering to my favorite aunt, Lucie, who was born(p) in 1947, my accept 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 they represent the characteristic 20th Century women of the United States. totally of them, and several generations sooner them, were b... '