Victorian women
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 10 feb 2023
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Created byHiba Al Chahidi
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The ideal woman - Submissive, quiet, one which lives revolves around her husband, a great host, a great mother, pure, refined, modest, not dumb but not too smart, feminine, a servant
The importance of marriage - Women got ‘protection’, no rights without it, social stability,
religious meaning,
The legal rights of married women - couldn't own property, keep their own wages, couldn’t enter into contracts,
Education and job opportunities - few received education, attended dame schools, focused on most womMary Wollstonecraft: British women's rights advocate, author, philosopher,Josephine Butler: British feminist, social reformator, led a campaign for womens right to voteJohn Stuart Mill: british philosopher, belonging to british utilitarianism, wrote about equality between the sexes.Emmeline Pankhurst: active in the british suffrage movement, helped found the WSPU in 1903,Emily Davison: teacher, british suffrage, fought for women's rights to voteWhat was Black Friday 1910? - suffrage demonstration in London (november 18), 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament. 200 women were assaultedWhat does the Cat and Mouse Act refer to? - The act that allowed for the early release of starving prisoners that were at risk of dying. They were recalled back to the prison once they were healthy enough.The declaration of sentiments (although it is American) -document based on the declaration of independence. Claimed that all men and women were created equal.- women got the right to vote in England, Wales and Scottland.The declaration of sentiments (although it is American) -document based on the declaration of independence. Claimed that all men and women were created equal. 1848Emmeline Pankhurst: helped found the WSPU in 1903.John Stuart Mill: wrote about equality between the sexes.(The Subjection of Women - 1869)
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