What fascinates me most about crime patterns is how closely
they correlate with contemporary gender rules and roles. So in reading about the sensational Jodi Arias trial for the murder of her one-time boyfriend,
Travis Alexander these past few months, I couldn’t help but look at it through
a sociological lens. As a read about the case, I kept thinking about the
gendered cultural rules that modern-day women are expected to follow.
Before the 1960’s, most young women believed that finding a
husband was their primary goal. But by the late 1960's these cultural rules had become more complicated and building a career also became an objective–a shift that was largely the result of the Women’s Liberation movement. But despite
this change, a large strand of cultural thought still urges contemporary
American women to seek emotional and economic dependence through their husbands
and boyfriends.
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