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- 1. How women were supposed to be in the 1950s Visual Media: SOCIAL NORMS
- 2. A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles. synopsis
- 4. Education
- 6. SexualityTHE MANY FACETS OF Mona Lisa SMILE
- 11. Looking bad or un-done was not an option
- 14. At Wellesley College, majority of students get an education from tradition
- 15. Women of the school defended this tradition
- 16. Women were not expected to attend graduate school
- 17. Student, Joan, exhibited ambition to go to law school. When Ms. Watson asked her which law school she would like to attend, she deflected her response by saying “I’m getting married.”
- 18. While Joan had an interest in furthering her education, she could not overcome the societal pressures impressed upon her to choose marriage.EDUCATION 2
- 19. “What will future scholars see when they study us, a portrait of women today? There you are ladies: the perfect likeness of a Wellesley graduate, Magna Cum Laude, doing exactly what she was trained to do. Slide - a Rhodes Scholar, I wonder if she recites Chaucer while she presses her husband's shirts. Slide - hehe, now you physics majors can calculate the mass and volume of every meatloaf you make.” -Katherine Watson; Art history Professor in Mona Lisa Smile EDUCATION 3
- 21. Raise family
- 22. Always make husband happy
- 23. Have dinner on the table
- 24. House was to be clean
- 25. Average age for marriage was 20
- 26. Newspaper and magazines articles encouraged women to return to the home after the war
- 28. A longtime employee at Wellesley; grieving the death of her partner
- 29. gets dismissed by the college for providing contraception to students
- 30. Her sexuality is an open secret known by school staff and administration alike
- 31. Never jeopardized her career because it was never officially made public
- 33. She presents the class with media propaganda popular in the 1950s.
- 34. The slides were ads featuring women vacuuming while reading a book, measuring for an ironing board, and a girdle; “A girdle to set you free – what does that mean?!” Ms. Watson exclaimed.
- 35. Watson confronted the direct oppression placed by the media on women.
- 36. Her quote was right on in pinpointing the problem with society. CONCLUSIONS