A presentation on the social norms of a woman in the 1950s.

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

5. Romantic roles

6. SexualityTHE MANY FACETS OF Mona Lisa SMILE

8. Beautiful hair

9. Conservative makeup

10. Conformist clothes

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

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