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Women Enter the Public Lives. Revision Session 2. You need to have an opinion as to whether this work really did break them out of the SEPARATE SPHERES or not!. Middle Class Women. Working Class women. What were the expectations and roles of these women in the mid to late 19 th Century?.
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You need to have an opinion as to whether this work really did break them out of the SEPARATE SPHERES or not! Middle Class Women Working Class women What were the expectations and roles of these women in the mid to late 19th Century?
What type of PUBLIC work did women get to do at the end of the 19th Century? Write your ideas on your…
Women start to work in education • What did they do? Work on School Boards What did they do? When did they start and when did their involvement stop
Women as poor law guardians. What have these got to do with anything?
Social conscience of the rich is awoken….. • Who am I and what did I do in 1859? • 63 • Did it really make a massive change? What was the IMPACT?
Women in local politics: • 1881 in Bristol • Conservative association • 1883 • Ladies Grand Council • Women’s Liberal Federation in 1887 • Joined to the male organization • Had a separate branch for women • Men and women equal members • Habitations held • Had a two tier membership depending on class • Can you match up the following? Women’s Llberal Association Primorose League
Did any of this really achieve anything? Yes No Have you got an argument for either side? Make sure you have an opinion!!!!
Women in local politics ( municipal councils) • Eleanor Rathbone • Susan Lawrence • Margaret Ashton • Nettie Adler • ?can you remember what they did? • Was it just all the separate spheres still? ?
Exam style questions • “To what extent were women involved in public life before 1901” • “To what extent did the “angel in the house” concept still underpin women’s contribution towards society towards the end of the 19th Century?”