I. Women:
Continuation of Radicalism = the doorway to feminism.
- Intellectual ideas of the
Enlightenment.
- Olympia de Gouge.
- Class options.
- Why this appeals to the
middle classes, why it's an offshoot of radicalism.
- Changes on the professional,
personal, academic, domestic, sexual, political and intellectual levels.
- Options available by class:
- Wealthy: Marriage,
family, running households. PRIVATE SPHERES. Charity and
reform work. Religious career.
- Middle class:
Nursing, teaching (beyond the family), clerical.
- Poor: Urban or
rural labor; unskilled work; domestic; production; prostitution.
- Reform work opens the door to
organization of Internat'l Congress of Women,
which provides a forum of expression, an outlet for politicization.
- Socialist/radicals target
labor unions.
- Conflict: Split
movement: Emphasis on social reform vs. suffrage.
- Emmaline
Pankhurst - daughters Christabel
and Sylvia (perfect example of #I above).
- Queen Victoria.
- Florence Nightingale (most
highly honored woman in the British Empire, never
received a paycheck for her work!)
- 1903 Women's Social and
Political Union -- the coming together of all these ideas, where anarchism
meets feminism.
- Civil disobedience: Emmeline Pankhurst and
Constance Lytton.