Victorian Gender Roles/Issues

Question 1

Responsibilities for Victorian women

Answer 1

Women of all social classes worked
lots of labor jobs, factory workers, servants, washerwomen
servant less popular bc isolating job, hard to find husband

Question 2

What legal rights did women have regarding property, education, and marriage?

Answer 2

Girls limited to home education until 1803 bc of Sunday schools
- no degrees until 1878
- 1882 women can own property when married
-matrmonial cause act, limited access to divcore, allows them access to children and property after divocred

Question 3

What was ideal woman?

Answer 3

-moral guide for husband
-put husband and children first
-firmily in the home

Question 4

How did women of different social classes behave?

Answer 4

-upperclass: royalty, nursin/ midwives
-middle class: families with jobs like writers or religious order members
-lower class: labor jobs, seamstress, servants, washerwomen
-underclass: unemployed, homeless, prositution

Question 5

What was the Angel House ideal, how did it shape views of women?

Answer 5

-Angel house was a book written by Coventry patmore
-published in 2 installments
-written about a poet who falls in love and got married and set the expectation for women as the wife solidified existing standards

Question 6

Expectations for men

Answer 6

leader of family, command wife

Question 7

Characteristics of Victorian men

Answer 7

moral uprightness and honor, loyalty, poltiness

Question 8

How were boys and girls raised differently in terms of education?

Answer 8

boys:
-greek and latin
-went to university
Girls;
-haphazahrd
-taught at home
-dance, drawing piano
Both:
-ABC’s and Arthimtic
-went to Sunday school

Question 9

How did Masculinity relate to work, family and social standing?

Answer 9

men could be distinguished by power, authority, and wealth
gentleman must be free from bias

Question 10

What is Hegemonic masculinity?

Answer 10

Legitimizes men’s dominance over women, known as normative masuclinity

Question 11

Expectations surrounding romantic realtionships

Answer 11

money large factor, marriage most important thing for women

Question 12

Family structure in Victorian household

Answer 12

Female is submissive
wife is childlike compared to husband
husband should scold wife

Question 13

Charles Dickens take on gender roles

Answer 13

reinforces stereotypical gender roles
female character in homes
men have constant social presenes
times of disorder gender confusion

Question 14

Industrlization effect on role of women?

Answer 14

vital to brick making indutry
very present in factories
gave women freedom and money o wear any clothing, much more rights
allowed them to wear what they wanted

Question 15

Women’s rights

Answer 15

fight for birth control
women should be able to have short skirts trouser and long hair
many English authors promote feminism