Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Darwinism, Heterosexuality, Althea Gibson
20 Mar 2016
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Growth in numbers of feminist, educated, independent, career women. An icon of changing gender norms following victorian era. The new women: educated, independent, career woman, breaking away form stereotypes. The new women had more freedom to pursue public roles, venturing out of the domestic sphere for employment, politics and culture. Included glamorous performers, working class working girls , middle class daughters entering college and male dominated professions, social reformers in women"s clubs, trade unions, and suffrage, and athletes: working class: factories/shops, middle class: jobs like doctors, teachers. Women were originally seen as dependent, culturally and legally enforced (they were property) Bicycle developed at this point, big part in breaking gender norms. Sports and the new woman: the rise of the new woman was tied to changes in women"s physical and educational culture, 1890ish, people are starting to put physical recreation programs in school rigid, boring.
