DidYou know?It’s in 1769 that the colonies adopt the english system decreingwomen cannot have their own property in their own name. In 1920, thenineteenth amendment to the constitution is ratified, ensuring theright of women to vote. In 1923 therewill bethe introduction of the first version of an Equal Rights Amendmentbutit will be only in 1963 and 1964, the Equal Pay Act passed byCongress, promising equitable wages for the same works, reagrdless ofthe race, color, religion, national origin and an Act passed,prohibiting sex discrimination in employment. Theprogressive failure of the patriarchal structure isbased on the limits in the internal structure of the family: theplace of the woman whois also a wife, a mother and a daughter andthe conflict between generations. But the desire to broke up withtraditions is not the easiest way, even if women in our text doesn’tlisten to the older, theydisown the dominance of the male head, the main point of thepatriarcal system,it doesn’t significate they willbe happy ever after. Sometimes it’s just an advice, it’s justlove.
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