Industrialization placed stresses on society that led to concerns about its effect on the family, specifically the patriarchal structure of the unit.The ideal structure was a separate sphere modeling women as guardian of the home and man in the public as the money maker . This show cased that women were merely just a housekeeper of the house and children due to the nurturing component of the women. After 1840 labor movement, start to come up the middle class. Women were fully subordinate to their husbands. During the industrialization era, women were put in the workforce and into the world. Women and children were part of wage earners like the husband was. The middle class Victorian ideal of family was one in which wives were fully subordinates to their husbands as the “angles of home and hearth”. The victorian middle class wanted order and security of property and person, to consume the new products of the industrial age, the separation of home and work and a domestic culture based age,class and gender difference and hierarchy. The strain on industrialization outcome was family. There were two visions, home was sanctuary(middle class) and family remand together(working class). Most common outcome gdt for brides were the bible and Mrs. Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management. The common gift to brides showed that women were just meant to manage the …show more content…
The laws was discussed among groups and there were meetings about the law and what should be in the law and what shouldn 't. “ In the original draft of the family code, the marriage age for men had been higher that for women” (400). The people made it the same. In the family code “child supports is not now automatically expected of the man, but instead might be expected of the women cases where the man is studying and the women is working”(400). This code showed that family structure by both parents having equal responsibilities for childcare and housework. The cuban revolution was trying to get rid of the traditional household concepts of men and women of how women does household chores and men bring the money. The state cared about the stable family structure because it was a revolution. The potential of the Cuban Revolution and the revolutionary potential of literary and sexual expression was important. Two author stated their opinion, Reinaldo Arenas said that “ I think the sexual revolution in Cuba actually came about as a result of the existing sexual repression perhaps as a protest against the regine, homosexualtiy began to flourish with ever- increasing defiance”(409) Pablo Milanes said” although the revolution did make a conscious commitment to gender equality, there was no parallel drive to end discrimination on the basis of