HIS310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Henrik Ibsen
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Lecture 8- coco before chanel & the new woman. By the end of class students will be able to: Recognize the connection between the new woman and social change. Evaluate biases in audio-visual and visual sources. Show how chanel challenged and changes fashion norms. During a 50 year period , the new woman could work , a new modern idea of how a lady could be has emerged. Germany 1900, law code allowed women to keep their wages and not have to give to their husbands. The service sector for women boomed- they were typing, postal work and clerks. France in 1906, about 40% of clerk work was done by women. Teaching as profession gave women upward social mobility. The new woman (c. 1880s-c. 1930s: the new woman was financially independent and worked outside the home, the new woman was educated. Switzerland and france in 1860"s medical school are available to women.
