From spinster to career woman: middle-class women and work in Victorian England
"The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young women for personal and financial freedom, led progressive thinkers to advocate for increased employment opportunities. The major stumbling block was the persistent conviction that middle-class women--"ladies"--could not work without relinquishing their social status. Through media reports, public lectures, and fictional portrayals of working women, From Spinster to Career Woman traces advocates’ efforts to alter cultural perceptions of women, work, class, and the ideals of womanhood. Focusing on the archetypal figures of the hospital nurse and the typewriter, Arlene Young analyzes the strategies used to transform a job perceived as menial into a respected profession and to represent office work as progressive employment for educated women. Going beyond a standard examination of historical, social, and political realities, this book delves into the intense human elements of a cultural shift, and the hopes and fears of young women seeking independence. Providing new insights into the Victorian period, From Spinster to Career Woman captures the voices of ordinary women caught up in the frustrations and excitements of a new era. "-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Victorian Spinster to New Career Woman 3 i The Woman Question and the One Thing Needful: Work 15 2 The Strong-Minded Victorian Nurse: The Disputes over Nursing and Hospital Reform 39 3 “Books Are Better Than That”: The Representation of the Nurse in Victorian Fiction 60 4 Work and the Challenges of Modernity: The Victorian Typewriter 103 5 “In Business to Stay”: The Typewriter in Victorian Fiction 124 Conclusion: “What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?”: The Women’s Press and the Mainstream Media in the 1890s 158 Notes 171 Bibliography 199 Index 21i
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