Women In Victorian Society

Author : Eleanor Gordon,Lecturer in Economic History Eleanor Gordon,Gwyneth Nair,MS Gwyneth Nair
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300102208

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Public Lives by Eleanor Gordon,Lecturer in Economic History Eleanor Gordon,Gwyneth Nair,MS Gwyneth Nair Pdf

Study of the lives of Victorian women and their families. This publication offers insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the 20th century. Examined are women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. The authors explore personal diaries (both men's and women's), correspondence, inventories, wills, census reports, and other documents from Glasgow, the second most important British city of the period.

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521270642

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Prostitution and Victorian Society by Judith R. Walkowitz Pdf

A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Author : Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802078397

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Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario by Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Pdf

A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.

Author : K. D. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198207271

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Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain by K. D. Reynolds Pdf

This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400830855

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Between Women by Sharon Marcus Pdf

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Author : Aşkın Haluk Yildirim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1634829492

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Victorian Gender Ideology and Literature by Aşkın Haluk Yildirim Pdf

The origins of discrimination against women date back to ancient times. Throughout history, women have been exploited sexually, physically, economically, and socially under the shadow of patriarchal doctrines. Religion, tradition and the codes of morality have been misused to ensure the slavery of women. Although today the social and economic status of women is better than it was in the past, they are still the primary victims of abuse, humiliation, violence, and oppression. The Victorian era is one of the most debated periods in history of womanly struggle against discrimination. While it was considered an age of progress and prosperity, it was a time of misery and poverty as well. Victorian England was one of the hottest spots of the Woman Question. At the time, women were forced to lead a passive existence dictated by the norms of Victorian gender ideology. Transformations in science and technology during this period were contradictory to social beliefs and values. Despite the astonishing progress experienced during this period, the rigidly defined roles of men and women in Victorian society remained almost the same until the beginning of twentieth century. Victorian literature on gender flourished in such a tense atmosphere. Female rebellion against the injustices of this developing world often found its voices among the ones who were able to feel the deep sorrow experienced either by themselves or by the members of their gender. This book explores Victorian gender issues and the role of Victorian literature on the womanly journey towards emancipation through their evolutionary path. The key concepts and movements that shaped the historical, social, and political background of women's cry for their rights are examined along with the accompanying gender literature mainly through a feminist reading of female writers as regards to the Woman Question.

Author : Arlene Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773558489

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From Spinster to Career Woman by Arlene Young Pdf

The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women - "ladies" - could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates' efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. This book goes beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, delving into the intense human elements of a cultural shift and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era.

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798554662041

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Villette Illustrated by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

"Villette /viːˈlɛt/ is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Villette is a reworking), Jane Eyre, and Shirley."

Author : Lydia Murdoch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071501

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Daily Life of Victorian Women by Lydia Murdoch Pdf

Explores the complexities of the lived experiences of Victorian women in the home, the workplace, and the empire as well as the ideals of womanhood and femininity that developed during the 19th century. Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage, and otherwise contributed significantly to society outside of the domestic sphere. Daily Life of Victorian Women documents the varied realities of the lives of Victorian women; provides in-depth comparative analysis of the experiences of women from all classes, especially the working class; and addresses changes in their lives and society over time. The book covers key social, intellectual, and geographical aspects of women's lives, with main chapters on gender and ideals of womanhood, the state, religion, home and family, the body, childhood and youth, paid labor and professional work, urban life, and imperialism.

Author : Helena Wojtczak
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904109051

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Women of Victorian Sussex by Helena Wojtczak Pdf

Author : Alice Sturm
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783668777620

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The Representation of the Role of Women in "The Turn of the Screw" by Alice Sturm Pdf

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Englisch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,3, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Few, if any historical time periods were characterized by such profound change, penetrating all areas of political, social, and cultural life, as was the Victorian Era in England and Great Britain. The British Empire with its colonies spanned the whole globe and new influences, needs, and inventions partly called for and partly brought about change in all shapes and forms. One very important part of this overall change was the fight for women’s rights and the starting change of the traditional gender roles. Many people fought for women’s right to vote, more rights inside of a marriage, and much more, leading to the first wave of feminism. Of course, a topic of such social importance was not only discussed in political debates but permeated through many aspects of the life of the time, one of which being literature. Many authors reflected traditional gender roles in their works, by showing female characters behaving in new and uncommon ways or putting them in difficult situations. This paper analyses the role of women during the Victorian Era as shown in Henry James' novel 'The Turn of the Screw'.

Author : Joan Perkin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0814766250

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Victorian Women by Joan Perkin Pdf

A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Coventry Kersey D. Patmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590767712

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The Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore Pdf

Author : Ellen M. Plante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816033927

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Women at Home in Victorian America by Ellen M. Plante Pdf

Gives a portrait of typical middle-class life in Victorian American ; examines the material culture of the Victorian era and the growth of Victorianism.

Author : Clarice Swisher
Publisher : Lucent Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1590185714

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Women of Victorian England by Clarice Swisher Pdf

This book discusses the role of women in Victorian England.