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Women in the Victorian era. Many have seen the status of women in the Victorian era as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom 's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.
- Queen Victoria
Most scholars agree that the Victorian Age was a time of escalating gender polarization as women were expected to adhere to a rigidly defined sphere of domestic and moral duties, restrictions that women increasingly resisted in the last two-thirds of the century.
Victoria became an icon of late-19th-century middle-class femininity and domesticity. The Victorian era, 1837-1901, is characterised as the domestic age par excellence, epitomised by Queen...
13 mar 2018 · Women In Nineteenth-Century America. in: Antebellum Period, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Progressivism, Eras in Social Welfare History, Woman Suffrage.
In the 19th century, women’s history would have been inconceivable, because “history” was so closely identified with war, diplomacy, and high politics—from all of which women were virtually excluded.
Victorian Feminists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Classic study of key figures in Victorian feminism, with an emphasis on their understanding of oppression against women, as opposed to the goals of their specific campaigns.
8 mar 2014 · What 19th-century women really did In a talk on Monday (10 March, 2014) Sophie McGeevor (Faculty of History) will explain how her research into a collection of autobiographies by working class women is helping to fill a gap in our knowledge of the occupational structure of 19th century Britain.
