HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Contagious Disease, Public Sphere
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London: gender and society, domestic sphere vs public sphere a. i. a. ii. Domestic sphere is the home a. ii. 1. a. ii. 2. a. ii. 3. Poor had tenement home, several families lived together a. iii. Public sphere is the street: the street. Contact between men and women b. i. b. ii. b. iii. Women went out with escorts: etiquette manuals c. i. Told men and women the rules of how to behave in public c. ii. Mother would hover over couples in home during courtship: gender roles d. i. Women"s only working roles were in volunteering or schools d. iii. Many girls hired as shop girls at department store (not married women: moral and sexual panics, maiden tribute of modern babylon a. i. Sexual slavery: miss fanny park and miss stella boulton, men who dressed as women, arrested and tried (scandalous, thomas = fanny, frederick = stella. The great social evil : myths and statistics. 55,000 or 80,000 prostitutes in victorian london a. i. a. ii. Fallen women b: contagious disease acts c. i. c. ii. c. iii.
