Blog #9: Get Pumped because..another American Dream blog post!!!!!!
We be talkin about the American Dream in CONTEXT! I was skimming the book and a couple chapters caught my attention. For the blog post though I want to focus on the Chapter 5 called "Whose Dream? Gender and the American Dream." This chapter is written by one of the authors of "The American Dream in the 21st Century", Sandra L. Hanson, which caught my attention because I read her bio at the end of the book. As Mrs. Flewelling said, the title gives some insight into the context of the chapter. My chapter's title being "Whose Dream? Gender and the American Dream" makes an obvious connection between the American Dream and Genders. You can expect comparisons and contrasts between women in America and men in America, but I expected her to focus more on the point of view of a women in America trying to take part in the American Dream (that is what it ended up being!). At the very beginning of the text, Hanson begins with a poll that shows t