AP European Separate Spheres

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Separate Spheres

Women in the 19th Century

Role of Conservatism

Repressing Women's Movements after the French Revolution

Women's Rights within the Family

  • Merged persons, not legal beings - Couverture
  • All property owned by either Father or Husband
  • Husband could instigate divorce on ground of adultery, she could not
  • Subject to legal physical punishment by husband

Queen Victoria

and the Angel in the House

Separate Spheres

  • Industrial revolution enabled single wage earner households
  • Allowed women to stay home with children
  • Any skilled work she did before was gone
  • Expectation was  to keep the house for the family
  • Raise the children as the most virtuous member of the household

Opposing Views

Women Authors - Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte

Seneca Falls Convention

New York 1848

Ladies of Langham Place

And the English Woman's Journal

Opportunities: Woman's Mission

  • Women seen as virtuous
  • Evangelism and reform impulses in Victorian society
  • Women could extend moral authority into social institutions
  • Took up anti-slavery, temperance

Legislative Change

  • Married Women's Property Act
  • Repeal of Contagious Diseases Acts

Political Feminism

  • National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies - Millicent Fawcett
  • Women’s Social and Political Union - Emmaline Pankhurst
  • The WSPU was more radical and violent - defacing art and government buildings, clashing with police, and going on hunger strikes

Women's Suffrage

  • Granted to women over 30 in England in 1918.
  • Germany - 1919
  • France - 1945

David Tucker

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