History 2181A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Victorian Era, Industrial Revolution, Advantageous
15 May 2019
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Industrial revolution: move from agriculture industrial = new roles for men and women. Ideology implied that the family was doing so well economically that the women did not have to work and she could stay home and do the labour (one wage earner: reinforced the patriarchy. Benefits for patriarchal culture and white middle class: 1. Convenient way to keep women out of the public sphere: 2. Prevents women from competing for jobs and wages of men (public sphere = only men: 3. Men could show off their status and had more power over their wives men were earning the money and they could dictate how it was spent: 4. Kept marriages in tact by preventing women from leaving their husbands because wives were financially dependent: 5. Men benefit from women"s unpaid labour at home because they do everything for free that men do not need to pay for (sex, cleaning, child bearing, child rearing: 6.
