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Women's Place In Victorian Society

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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WOMEN'S PLACE IN VICTORIAN SOCIETY

BY JUSTIN ROBBINS, TREY BLOOM, DANIEL LIPE
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WOMEN RIGHTS

  • Very few
  • Couldn't choose who to marry
  • Less education than boys
  • If wasn't married it is frowned upon
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FORCED LABOR

  • Prostitution was common
  • Men can force them to have sex
  • Force to depend on men for money
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WORK

  • Worked in factories
  • Worked on farms
  • Mostly unemployed
  • Were maids, nurse, laundress, teacher
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CULTURE OBLIGATIONS

  • Really tight clothes
  • Symbolic of how constricted their life's were
  • They wore dress
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THE COMMON WOMAN

  • It was appropriate for women to do domestic work and raise kids
  • Independent women were socially unapproved of
  • They would have to act extremely feminine
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Wojtczak, Helena. "WOMEN'S STATUS IN MID 19TH-CENTURY ENGLANDA BRIEF OVERVIEWby Helena Wojtczak." English Women's History. HastingsPress, n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. .

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RESTRICTIONS

  • Couldn't be in public
  • No control over children
  • Forced to stay with kids and husband
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Justin Robbins