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PHD VERIFIED |
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SEETHISLISTofMOREonRUTHAccreditedscholarlyresourcesMcQueenRevisedInstructions.docx
SEE THIS LIST of Accredited scholarly resources, next read the 3 authors in text citations (note the authors RUSKIN, CAIRD & ELLIS) as three more sources, noting the RED print? Finally see part TWO or question TWO?
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The challenges of women during the Victorian Era were equal opportunity rather than competition. They lacked the opportunity to expand on their intellectual faculties rather than the belief of “Feminine education”. Feminine education was believed to cultivate the heart instead of their actual minds (Ellis 656).
Women during the movement were “looking forward steadily, hoping and working for the days when men and woman shall be comrades and fellow workers as well as lovers and husbands and wives” (Caird 679). The women’s question “encompassed not one question but many” (653). Women wanted equality and wanted to be more than just someone’s wife.
Marriage was believed to be “Gods will” or “divinely willed” (654). “Women’s position in society and in marriage was take as natural” (Ruskin 654). Queen Victoria even described changes because of marriage as “sacrifices marriage imposed on women” (654). Caird believed that marriage was socially constructed and “to be bored was a privilege” (655). It was said that it was a privilege of wives and daughters of upper- and middle-class homes. Makes sense when you have the money to pay someone to do it all for you there’s nothing left for you to do. When you don’t have a companion to speak to because he is not seen as an equal you would be bored.
“The intercourse of man and woman-how frivolous, how unworthy it is!” (Cassandra 675). Marriage was said to be more of a lawful commitment. Women and men did not have much to talk about. Women were called upon to work when financially the man failed. With limited experience a woman could only do so much. Women were limited because of their lack of experience. Social evil becomes a main financial support. Women were so limited to jobs and opportunities that prostitution was a means of making money.
The inequalities were greater when woman tried to become independent. The new woman was seen as “bicycle-riding, cigarette smoking, and mannish creature” (655). Although a women’s position was lower or less valuable then a man’s Ruskin also says that “home is yet wherever she is” (661). They were considered important in the household and even necessary. Ruskin also said that women’s power was for rule not battle and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet orderings or arrangement and decision. Her great function is to praise (MEN)(661).
PART TWO – Gender in Victorian Literature, Summarize “Marriage”, Westminster Review in 1888, by Mona Caird Feminist writer in 3-5 paragraphs.