Lynn Peril In Pink Think Summary

“In Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, Lynn Peril argues that women of the post World War II period were taught and encouraged to live a restricted life style and act in a specific manner if she expected to live the ideal life. In this paper, I will analyze and argue how the rise of the mass culture specifically commercial advertising played a significant role in depicting and persuading what roles, identities, and products women should attain in order to be the “ideal women”. During World War II, millions of women played a crucial role by taking over the men’s work life, like manufacturing and industrial trades in order to help the war efforts due to the lack of men overseas. However, just like women’s roles changed during the war, it changed once the war had ended and soldiers were returning home. Men returned home and assumed their jobs that …show more content…
One pink think idea was that women were to be domestic, and her place was at home taking care of the family and having dinner prepared for husband when returning from work. This was reflected in home economic books, a book where the only human being doing domestic work was of female gender. This book, A Treatise on Domestic Economy was intended to indoctrinate homemaker’s aka the female and teaching the duties of her inevitable role. Women were told through these books that learning homemaking meant you were to “learn about yourself, so that you can make your home more pleasant.” Specifically in Pink Think, Peril explains how home economic texts “. Specifically in Pink Think, Peril explains how home economic texts “ included boys in their targeted audience, there was no mistaking whom the books were really aimed at.” home economic books, in the most blunt manner were dictated gender politics and female