Did Industrial Revolution Lead To A Sexual Revolution?

Did the Industrial Revolution Lead to a Sexual Revolution? The Industrial Revolution led to many important changes during the eighteenth century. The majority of these changes mostly affected women and how they began to view themselves. Edward Shorter, author of Female Emancipation, Birth Control and Fertility in European History focused on how the women’s emancipation during 1750 to 1850 led to a feminist movement. According to Shorter, the rise of illegitimacy came from women wanting more freedom to do what they wanted without the speculation of their parents. But for authors Louis A Tilly, Joan W. Scott and Miriam Cohen from Women’s Works and European Fertility Patterns, they believed that women In this essay I hope to discover if the enlightenment was what led to the rise of illegitimacy as discussed by Shorter, or was it a woman’s vulnerability in the big city working to support her family that led to illegitimacy, as was expressed
He compartimalizez how women had been affected by capitalism by dimensions. The first being that the female sexual values and traditional taboos were weakened, the second was women interest in intercourse as an personality development and last dimension was the removal of female sexual emancipation.Shorter used those three dimensions to clarify how the growth and advancement of women in society was for their own benefits. He revealed that women desired a more influential role within the household and disliked the idea of their husbands making all the decisions. As stated by Shorter, the market started with the youngest to the lowliest on the age-status spectrum and concluded with the most established and mature...emancipation spread from young and poor to well to do and middle-aged. Essentially this meant that women were inspired to live their lives as they saw fit and to not submit to the voices of their