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Gender Roles in Laura Ingalls Wilder´s "The Long Winter"

Gender Roles in Laura Ingalls Wilder´s "The Long Winter"

Bastug, Nermin

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ISBN10: 3656210047
ISBN13: 9783656210047
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Jun 10 2012
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 11, University of Marburg, course: The Frontier in American History, language: English, abstract: Men and women had definitive roles and tasks at the American Frontier. The image of gender roles at the end of the 19th century is depicted in Laura Ingalls Wilder s novel The Long Winter. It tells us the story of the Ingalls family s hard time during blizzards during a hard and long winter. Besides Charles and Almanzo s efforts, the strong, able-bodied [female] pioneers [...] contribute considerably to the survival of their families (McGinnis). The Long Winter with its domestic ethos and its clearcut models of gender (Romines 1997, 146) is a concrete example to illustrate the gender roles at the American Frontier. In this work the roles of frontier men and women are exemplified by Caroline s, Charles and Almanzo s tasks and lives. Moreover, the girls Laura, Carrie and Mary Ingalls are being prepared to take over the gender roles adopted by their parents.

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