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
