Things That Only Grandmothers Know: The Bridge Generation Part 1
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Josephine G.
For many years I have been aware that my generation, today’s elderly grandmothers, is a historical curiosity, a kind of bridge generation such as had never been seen before. Our childhood was spent under a firmly patriarchal regime. Then, when we had barely reached adulthood, everything changed. We found ourselves with one foot in our predictable, familiar everyday world while the other was tentatively trying to find a place to land in a foreign and often disturbing world.
In this new world, things were getting to be very different for women, suddenly even the respect one might have received for being a mother was torpedoed and for grace one exchanged shame as being ‘only a mother’. Our daughters were sexually liberated and happily breaking all the codes we’d been brought up to believe were immutable. There was a great deal of adjustment to be made, for which on the whole there was little understanding and no credit. This is indeed an extraordinary generation to be celebrated!
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Josephine G.
For many years I have been aware that my generation, today’s elderly grandmothers, is a historical curiosity, a kind of bridge generation such as had never been seen before. Our childhood was spent under a firmly patriarchal regime. Then, when we had barely reached adulthood, everything changed. We found ourselves with one foot in our predictable, familiar everyday world while the other was tentatively trying to find a place to land in a foreign and often disturbing world.
In this new world, things were getting to be very different for women, suddenly even the respect one might have received for being a mother was torpedoed and for grace one exchanged shame as being ‘only a mother’. Our daughters were sexually liberated and happily breaking all the codes we’d been brought up to believe were immutable. There was a great deal of adjustment to be made, for which on the whole there was little understanding and no credit. This is indeed an extraordinary generation to be celebrated!
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque in diam id erat facilisis consectetur vitae vel urna.
Ut lacus libero, suscipit auctor ipsum sit amet, viverra pretium nisl. Nullam facilisis nec odio nec dapibus. Integer maximus risus et velit porttitor ullamcorper
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that was so lovingly written thankyou so much
