The emergence of the 19th century in Canada brought about significant progressive changes‚ which have molded society into what it has become today. As the course has progressed‚ many significant groups have been depicted as having undergone severe mistreatments‚ enforced by society at the time. However‚ the group that struck out as having undergone severe abuse‚ were married women. This class of women‚ had to take on the harsh penalties that were placed by the male-driven society. Any of the “privileges”
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As a women have you ever felt as if you have had less freedom? Fewer capabilities as men? That’s what most women felt in the 19th century and they felt that way because of how society treated them. The Yellow Wallpaper by‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman was about a woman in the 19th century who isn’t given her rights because of the society she lives in and because of her husband. This story lets us see into a mind of a woman who is dealing with a bad case of postpartum depression. She is going through
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made for man." A quote from Elizabeth Stanton. Women during the 19th century were judged by four outstanding qualities according to the Cult of True Womanhood; “piety‚ purity‚ submissiveness‚ and domesticity.” Men deemed piety to be the foundation for a good wife. Religion would not take a woman away from her “proper sphere” known as her home which kept her in isolation. Another way men would control women was by her purity. A woman in the 19th century was to remain pure and innocent. Remaining so
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discrimination‚ and abuse then anyone could image. From the revolution to the Great Depression women encountered more battles with men over religion‚ politics‚ jobs‚ equal pay‚ and finally the victory for the right to vote. The newer generation of young women would usher in an entirely different request. Many things were forbidden‚ unheard of and even unthinkable in the 19th century. The twenty century woman were no longer fighting for voting rights but rather declaring a new way of life‚ freedom
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In the 19th century‚ the industrial revolution changed the United States and Western Europe. It led to power-driven machines in the textile industry. This came with the expansion of commercial farming areas to provide raw materials‚ increased wage labor and rapid urbanization. It also changed family life by decreasing family size because were involved in labor force. New England textile firms employed many people including children. Southern New England mills depended on single rural women who came
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19th Century Women Authors Some of the most influential women authors of all time lived in the 19th century. These women expressed their inner most thoughts and ideas through their writings. They helped to change society‚ perhaps without knowing it‚ through poetry‚ novels‚ and articles. Emily Dickinson‚ Harriet Jacobs‚ Kate Chopin‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Elizabeth Oakes Smith are the best-known controversial and expressive women authors of their time. On December 10‚ 1830 a poet was born
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nude body as a source of inspiration and content since the beginning of the medium. As stated by Graham Clarke in his book The Photograph‚ “[m]uch of the photography of the body in the early twentieth century is an extension of nineteenth-century preoccupations and attitudes” (Clarke). The 19th century encompassed the Victorian Era‚ and although it was shortly after the camera was invented‚ according to the Museum of Sex: “Victorians took millions of photographs; an untold
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especially with the various roles women had in each generation of Americans. Over times the way the American people perceived women would become a cyclical pattern as each generation would leave its own ubiquitous footprint on history‚ however as time would go on the footprints
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The women of the nineteenth century were stereotype in a negative way. The most difficult part of living in the nineteenth century as a women would be the stereotypes for example all women were viewed as weak‚ had no logic‚ emotional and depended. Those stereotypes were negative compared to the men. Men were viewed as brave‚ logic‚ independent and powerful. Women had no other choice than to be viewed differently even when it comes to their bodies. Women worn corsets to make themselves look slim and
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The plight of a homeless woman and a child in London during the mid 1870’s. The abject of misery was the results due to unfortunate circumstances and by accident. Many women abandoned by their husbands‚ some widowed‚ some with or without children. The predicament of poverty‚ misery stricken women in the 1887‚ usually older women‚ reduced to the plight of natural consequence. Begging was usually constituted food‚ bread‚ tea‚ this was their principle items to survive. Money was not easy to come by
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