GSWS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reform Act 1832, Industrial Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment
23 Nov 2016
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GSWS 102 WEEK 2
Defining feminism – recognizing there is imbalance between men and women, women in subordinate role.
18th Century onwards
- Mid 18th often seen as starting point of feminism
- Idiiduals fo ealie peiods did ite aout oes soial position
- Looking for ideas that set 17th century , not new ideas about feminist action.
18th and 19th Century
- Marked shift in extent and nature of feminism
- Iease i the aout of itig aout oes eaipatio
- Women excited by ideas of Enlightment and French Revolution
- Began to imagine alternative social and gender relations
- By mid 19th women in N.A, Europe, and the white-settler colonies of Canada, New Zealand and Australia
organize societies with the aim of making improvements in the social, economic, political, legal position of
women. Basic rights began to be fought for.
The Enlightenment
- Philosophical and political set of ideas. Critique both church and monarchy
- Base arguments on historical, sociological and scientific reason not theology/religion
- Belief in the potential of human reason to gain a fuller understanding of the world.
- Freedom of speech and religion.
Early Feminists
- Both women and men
- Advocated greater equality for women in: public institutions, family and household, important plae of oes
education, general equality of the sexes, right for women to remain single, have sexual relations and children.
Influences
- Europe and N.A- major social, intellectual, political and economic changes.
- Increasing literacy created more access to information for working and middle class people.
- Challenge of the Enlightment
- Revolutions in USA and France
- Europe and UK- socialist movements critiqued the new industrial order of 18th, look
- Yet eolutios liited oes politial atiit gae husand full legal powers over wife, her property and
children, adopted across Europe.
- 1832 Great Reform Act removed voting powers of small number of women.
Economic changes
- Industrial revolution (1760-1840), family labour replaced by waged labour, expansion of consumer goods.
- Home re-invented as place of childcare, consumption and leisure not production.
- Women at home= status symbol for middle class.
- Oe eooi atos oe eoe husads aessoies.
Waves of feminism
- Common narrative that feminism has come in waves
- 1st century 1860-1920
- 2nd 1960&1970
- 3rd 1990 and on
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