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The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831–51 (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1995). Gorham, Deborah. The Victorian girl and the feminine ideal (Routledge, 2012). Hawkins, Sue. Nursing and women's labour in the nineteenth century: the quest for independence (Routledge, 2010). Kent, Christopher.
Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era--that is the 1837-1901 reign of Queen Victoria.. The idea of "reform" was a motivating force, as seen in the political activity of religious groups and the newly formed labour unions.
Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution.
Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral ... archived in museums and even in a study of women's ... is a sitting-room culture of prestige through ...
Contrary to popular belief, Victorian society understood that both men and women enjoyed copulation. [116] Chastity was expected of women, whilst attitudes to male sexual behaviour were more relaxed. [117] The development of police forces led to a rise in prosecutions for illegal sodomy in the middle of the 19th century. [118]
The Culture of Domesticity (often shortened to Cult of Domesticity [1]) or Cult of True Womanhood is a term used by historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th century in the United States. [2]
The women's movement, however, did not engage in the issue until after the International Women's Congress in Berlin in September 1896. Two weeks later the German dress reform association, Allgemeiner Verein zur Verbesserung der Frauenkleidung, was founded. Its first exhibition took place in April 1897 in Berlin. 35 manufacturers had submitted ...
The category is for women of significance in the Victorian era of British history, from 1837–1901.It is a subcategry of People of the Victorian era, and should only contain women active in Britain or in the British Empire.