HIUS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-5, 8-9: Wage Labour, Gang Rape, Ladylike
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Hius 130 textbook notes city of women (pgs 41-102, 155-192) Families sending their children to the house of refuge for not supporting the rest of the family. The moral economy of the tenements: neighborliness, there were disagreements between neighbors, sometimes public in order to try to draw support from a crowd, sometimes physical, between women. Chapter 4: places of vice: views of the neighborhoods. Evangelicalism and female class relations: took on traditionally patriarchal duties in the home, leading family prayer. Female economic dependency bred hostility between men and women. Free of the obligations of domestic labor: clubs, holidays in the countryside, mingling between the sexes. Saturdays and sundays in warm weather, bowery moved to the country: took public transport, cheap boardinghouses, young women dressing in ways that were different from the established "ladylike" ways of dressing, prostitutes wore bright colors. Ladylike to wear muted colors: clothes a reflection of wages, emphasizing hips and thighs.
