Kinesiology 2263F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bike Boom, Ladylike, Orgasm
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Term used to describe: moral views of people during her reign, general moral climate in britain, anybody who adopts similar morality. This was the victoria age, there was an increase in public morality where restraint was very important, especially of women or men of specific class to restrain urges! We are, in fact, the stronger and they the weaker. They are obliged to believe all that we tell them and we, therefore, may be said to have them at our mercy. -- british medical journal, 1867 this is paternalism, where men have the best interests of women, but they are the ones in charge and women will listen to everything they say. This was a way people thought was normalized way to treat women, if there was scientific proof that s women were less able physical it was their moral and right to say something about it.