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7 Cards in this Set
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Urban space |
Urbanization, growth of cities and towns, rural to urban migrations, 19th century is full of people on the move in all sorts of dramatic ways Rate of growth: Canada’s population doubled in 40 years 1900: 60% of people in non-agricultural centers 1 in 4 children do not live past 4 years old - disease is perceived as fundamental challenge to the period |
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Normalization |
Predicated on living in a city, norms and establishments that are viewed as customs in families, fathers will provide, mothers are domestic managers |
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Seperate Spheres |
Cultural constructions, ideas that are being reflected on men and women but is reality for little amount of people |
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IMAGE: Cult of Domesticity |
Father is coming home after a long day of work, kids and wife greet him at the door and are happy to see him, they spend a large amount of family time together The man is an example of manhood, the new class asserting itself Gender ideals, masculine on the left and woman (at home taking care of kids, in the house waiting for the father to come home from a successful day at work) Man/woman: Public/private, production/reproduction, breadwinner/homemaker, rough/refined, experience/innocence, rational/emotional |
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Cult of domesticity |
Piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity Entry way into a home is very much a legal definition - rights over property, etc - and important space of transition Nurture the bodies in terms of healing them and making them well morally, physically, spiritually Man/woman relationship being institutionalized, imagine positioning yourself as one of those women in Prescott running a tavern Christian life: About living in a way that redeems your soul for an eternity Piety: Not just her living a pieus life, but raising children and redeeming sins of husband Purity: Sexual in nature, virgin until marriage - govern her own body against the masculine sexual energy Think of Prescott women again Submissiveness: Women’s roles as daughters, wives mothers - assumes women are going to submit to male heads of household UNLESS piety or purity have been violated IT IS NOT PERMISSIVE TO TREAT WOMEN AS PROPERTY AT THIS TIME, SO DON’T SAY THAT ON AN EXAM Nothing more important than piety/purity, submissiveness is supposed to be thrown out the window if it’s violated Domesticity: “Home sweet home” - the place of retreat which man returns to after enduring the rigors of the outside world, women are comforters and healers |
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Healthy Domestic Space |
Adams: Under the cult of domesticity, victorians understand how fundamental domestic space is for the future of the nation Allows women to do their jobs more effectively When a child is sick, it becomes the fault of the mother for failing to take care, if father is a sick man it is also the wife’s fault Adams in the reading: “Like the service pipe, house drain and ventilating pipe that defined women’s sphere, her body acted as both the protection against disease and the source for infection” |
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Rituals |
Became more prevalent in 1860s-1870s Dining room table set up in middle class homes was specific People assigned chairs, different members of a household have that chair all the time Father sat at the head, mother at the opposite Kids arranged from father to mother based on age and sex Everyone follows the lead of father - ceremonial carving, etc Laughter and stories were still being toldSet time for meals between 6-7 pm, with children encouraged to dress for these meals whenever possible Considered “family time” By the 1890s, this becomes an important value for working class families as well Evenings in the parlourSpending time with family” parents use this time to interact with their children, one way to do it is read with your children Mother reading from the bible with a child on the fathers lap or next to him, playing musicWhy evenings in the parlour? “Emotional and moral health of the family?” How much healthier the space inside the home versus the streets and urban space Waterfronts are filthy, children die on the streets, people are very weary “What can the father find in the streets? SIN! Home is the corrector of the sinner, home is a haven in a heartless world” |
