In Traffic of Souls, the lead woman role was considered the head of the household. Men were characterized as aggressive and influential in this film while women were considered weak and submissive. Without men by their sides, the women in the film were lost and taken advantage of. According Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg in their book titled Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, the clock had struck “sex o’clock in America” and morals were deteriorating (Mintz and Kellogg, 111). This is interpreted in the film with the prostitution and how much women were being taken advantage
In Traffic of Souls, the lead woman role was considered the head of the household. Men were characterized as aggressive and influential in this film while women were considered weak and submissive. Without men by their sides, the women in the film were lost and taken advantage of. According Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg in their book titled Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, the clock had struck “sex o’clock in America” and morals were deteriorating (Mintz and Kellogg, 111). This is interpreted in the film with the prostitution and how much women were being taken advantage