What was the "woman question"?
Name first female college in Cambridge?
Girton
when were male franchise reforms?
1832 1867
Two pieces of legislation affecting married women?
Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 Married Women's Property Act 1882
what was the 'new woman' essentially?
a literary creation
what is ironic about Ouida?
despite anti-feminism Ouida lived life of new woman
which ideology was feminism couched in?
domesticity
for middle class women, what inspired liberation?
education
what did better education capacitate?
employment opportunities
what was there between mothers and daughters?
generational gap
what can all women in society not be?
homogenised
how was new woman formed?
interaction between feminists and antifeminists
through responding to Grand, what does Ouida do?
legitimise New Woman
which ideology shaped the majority of feminists?
liberalism
how does the mainstream press satirise new woman?
mannish
what was still believed to be the best profession for women?
marriage
what did Grand present women as?
morally superior
what were mothers blamed for?
not sharing knowledge to daughters
which arguments did anti-feminists mainly use?
pseudo-biological arguments
what political movement was happening simultaneously to feminism?
socialism
what do feminists try to enforce about their nature?
still womanly
if "new woman" was exclusive, how could we find her?
those who weren't her
why would law need to be changed?
top down movement which is permanent
for working class women, what inspired liberation?
work
who were gaining the franchise simultaneous to the feminist campaign?
working men
Who did Sarah Amos believe first desired emancipation?
working women