Problem
Cosmopolitan (September 1920, entire issue) & "Ladies of Labor: Fashion, Fiction, Women's Culture" by Nan Enstad (1999)
A. After making your selection, read carefully through the primary source. Take notes: What types of content does the source contain? How is this content graphically laid out and presented? What sort of portrait of the era is captured in the primary source? What does the primary source reflect about the interests, values, motives, and demographics of the people who were producing it and reading it?
B. Next, read your secondary source. Take notes: How does the secondary source characterize the social, cultural and economic dynamics of the time period that it is studying? What explanations does it offer for why the primary source's content looked the way it did? What does the secondary source say about the interests, values, motives and demographics of the people who were producing and reading the primary source at that time? How does your reading of the secondary source integrate with and/or expand your understanding of the primary source? How does your reading of the primary source integrate with and/or expand your understanding of the secondary source?