Gender And Class During The Victorian Era

GENDER AND CLASS IN BRITAIN DURING VICTORIAN ERA
Victorian Britain was associated with oppressive social norms that affected all classes. During this period, the place of a woman was at the household as domesticity and motherhood was considered by the society as emotional fulfillment for females. During this era, the rights of women were limited; they could own property, sue or even vote. Following the industrial revolution, women participated in paid workforce in increasing numbers. Rights and privileges were limited. Women during the Victorian era were disadvantaged both financially and sexually, putting up with inequalities in marriage and social status as men had more stability, financial position, and power.
Gender and Class According to Clark, Tosh, and Koven
Anna Clark tries to expound on previous studies of the British working class by infusing gender into the analysis of class.
For the better part of the Century, during the Victorian era, Britons went slumming with the intention to see how the poor lived. Koven points out that men and women who ruled the church and state and dominated social welfare bureaucracies were forced to visit, live and work in the slums of London. They argued that slum experiences were necessary for all who spoke about social problems.
Koven defines slumming as any movement of descent across spatial, class, and gender boundaries, and he structures it into two parts: The first focuses on the journalists and reformers who impersonated the poor in order to publicize hidden aspects of poverty, and the second concentrates on men and women who sought to forge ties with the poor by living with