Dec 28, 2009

I, I, I | Compare and Contrast

• 1920s: Society in small towns in the United States is to some extent gender-segregated, in that there are places where women do not generally venture. These include public bars, pool rooms, and barbershops.

• Today: Gender segregation has largely disappeared. Both women and men frequent bars and pool rooms, and men’s barbershops have in many cases been replaced by dual-gender hair salons.

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• 1920s: Ideas prevalent in existentialist and Eastern philosophies are known in some circles of the...