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VICTORIAN WOMEN
Victorian Women: ThemesTwo views of womenSeparate SpheresInstabilities of Separate spheresA Widening sphere
Two Views of Victorian Women
The Angel in the House, poem by Coventry Patmore.
Two Views of WomenJohn Ruskin: woman as receptacle of purity
Or,The woman as corrupter, as temptress and disruptive
And,The social, legal, political restraints on womenCaroline Norton and her children
Why the duality?
Separate SpheresGender rolesGender and biologyDomesticity and the character of women
Instability of Separate SpheresIdeology and RealityWomen as sexual beingsThe ubiquity of prostitution: 50k in London in 1850sWomen as economic beings: women in business, politics and as workers
Victorian Prostitution
The fallen woman
Instabilities of Separate Spheres
Women’s challenges to separate spheres
Women’s rights: education and political Mary WollstonecraftSuffrage campaign from c. 1870sChallenge to double standard: Josephine Butler and Contagious Diseases Acts
Two women who contributed to the instabilities of separate
spheres
A Widening SphereStructural changes Labor market: the typewriterMissionaries and NursesProfessionsVote to working class men 1867, 1884.