Context Flashcards
(13 cards)
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The Angel in the House
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- perfect housewife and artifact of the home
- women are allowed to add their female touch to the house
- men are ultimately in control
- women need to make sure their husbands aren’t tempted by the sin of the outside world
- Coventry Patmore
‘a house from which husband and children are glad to escape to the street, the theatre, or the tavern’
2
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Motherhood
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- seen as the Zenith of a woman’s emotional and spiritual fulfilment
- seen as a social responsibility
- mothers not expected to work
- Victoria had 9 children
3
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Ruskin’s Separate Spheres
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- men could go into the public world and encounter sin
- women have an innate goodness from staying in the domestic sphere
- women had to influence their husbands to good
4
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The New Woman
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- term coined by Sarah Grand in 1894
- significant culture icon of the fin de siecle
- intelligent, educated, independent, emancipated
- it applied to all classes
- sometimes an object of satire
5
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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- ‘the vindication of the rights of woman’
- 97000 word essay on how women are equal
- women don’t appear equal as they are not integrated into society like men
6
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John Stewart Mill
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- wrote an essay on female emancipation
- spoke about women getting the vote
- ‘subjection of women’
7
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Marital rape
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- common occurrence where a male would force himself upon his spouse
- criminalized in 1973
8
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Bourgeois Respectability
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- social mobility was common
- many entered the middle class
- reputation was everything
9
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Unmarried Women
Wives
Widows
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- Widows have the most freedom
- they have already been married so they do not have to worry about their honour
10
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The Ideal Woman: The Vicar’s Wife
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- article in the General Baptist Repository and Missionary Observer - 1840
- depicts what the ideal woman is supposed to be
- ‘punctuality, uprightness and remarkable frugality, combined with a firm reliance on God’
11
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Ruskin’s ‘Of Queen’s Garden’
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- men are active, progressive and defensive
- he is the doer, creator and discoverer
- he is supposed to be the chivalrous knight
- the woman’s power is for rule, not for battle
12
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Charlotte Bronte’s authorial intervention in Jane Eyre
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- ‘women are supposed to be very calm generally’
- ‘they suffer from too rigid a restraint’
- ‘it is narrow minded to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings’
13
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The Child Wife
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- using sexuality to get her own way
- concealing her macaroons
