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Middle Class Women Lower Class Women
784 wordsThe Bostonian's by Henry James was a very interesting piece. James' underlying tone for the spiritualism and mesmerism is clearly a picture of the time when the piece was written. I thought that is played an important influence in his writing. Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern is an unofficial biography of her own life as a women activist. One of the underlying issues that stands out from her novel is the way that she includes the lower-class women right along with the middle-class. This was not a common ...
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Middle Class Women Nineteenth Century
574 wordsAlongside this female tradition of social activism, large numbers of women became involved in clubs, which promoted 'self-culture' in the years after the Civil War. The formal beginnings of the culture club movement may be dated from the founding of Sorosis in New York City in 1868. During the 1870 s and 1880 s, many literary and cultural clubs were formed across the United States, most of which were initially uninterested in reform causes. The majority of their members were married women with a...
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Middle Class Women Forced To Work
1,720 wordsThe Odd Women When Gissing's novel was published in 1893, the number of women exceeded the number of men by over 500, 000. This made it impossible for every woman to find a husband and also led to too many women entering the "traditional" female fields mentioned above. Women were forced to find new jobs to support themselves such as the clerical and business realms. For the women not lucky enough to find a suitable husband or who lacked the education necessary for a professional life the alterna...
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Middle Class Women Nineteenth Century
1,315 wordsCity of Women In the period from about 1820 to 1860 female associations proliferated with a wide variety of purposes, some more radical than others. Women justified their involvement in the activities of these associations in terms of their innate female moral authority and difference from men and the duty this put on them to safeguard the moral standards of society. As a number of historians have shown, their efforts were part of the wider process by which the emerging middle class sought to es...
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Middle Class Women Status In Society
1,564 wordsGender and Money: Limitations for Women in the Victorian City If money is the ascribing of value to valueless matter, the basis of its power for evil over man is his forgetting of this fact. Our Mutual Friend is about a whole society which has forgotten. Instead of seeing that man has made money of dust and is the source of its value, this society takes money as the ultimate value-in-itself, the measure and source of all other value. As one of the Voices of Society says, A man may do anything la...
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Middle Class Women Social And Political
1,379 wordsJane Addams is recognized as a social and political pioneer for women in America. In her biography, which later revealed her experiences in Hull House, she demonstrates her altruistic personality, which nurtured the poor and pushed for social reforms. Although many of Addams ideas were considered radical for her time, she provided women with a socially acceptable way to participate in both political and social change. She defied the prototypical middle class women by integrating the line that se...
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Middle Class Women Labour Force
2,581 wordsOne of the main institutions in society is found within the household and is popularly known as The Family. It is here, in the family, where the commencement of society takes place. It is amongst this unit that the origin of womens oppression began with the constant power struggle between man and woman. With the nuclear family slowly being thrown out the window and the new dual-earner family creeping in to takes its place, its no wonder that womens positions have changed radically over the past ...
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Middle Class Women Role Of Women
1,810 wordsThe Role of Women in Victorian England The evolving role of women in Victorian England is the main subject of George Gissing's The Odd Women. Gissing's novel deals with the struggle that many English women faced in the later part of the nineteenth century as they struggled for independence and finding means to support themselves. Prior to the womens equal rights movement, which began in the middle part of the 1800 s, women were either expected to marry or follow careers as nurses, governesses, s...
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