New Woman

daily politics. This arouses bitter criticism and hostility, all of it very unjustified. We have kept women out of the parliamentary-democratic intrigues of the past fourteen years in Germany not because we do not respect them, but because we respect them too much. We do not see the woman as inferior, but rather as having a different mission, a different value, than that of the man. Therefore, we believed that the German woman, who more than any other in the world is a woman in the best sense of the word, should use her strength and abilities in other areas than the man.”(Josef Goebbels on German Womanhood) After reading the speech that parroted Adolf Hitler’s…

introduced to the “New Woman”, a term unfamiliar to me prior to this class. As a group, we engaged in lively conversation regarding the “New Woman” and what she means in terms of class, race, journalism, photography, and more throughout this semester. I was, of course, intrigued by the concept of the “New Woman”, her role in history and what she meant to not only our society today, but to myself as an individual. Having a particular interest in history, I was captivated learning about women in…

The New Woman movement in the 19th century was a movement started by women in the 1800s who wanted the freedom to have education, choose when and if they wanted to get married, if they wanted to use birth control or become sexually active without the intent to procreate. These women also wanted the freedom to take on careers and wear less restricting clothing that allowed them the freedom to be more active. In the 19th century America, there was certain expectations put on women both inside and…

Christian singer Cee Lo Green has released a new song titled “God is a Woman” this week on SoundCloud. The controversial Christian singer’s new song was released on Tuesday to join the celebration of International Women’s Day. In “God is a Woman,” Cee Lo Green describes God as the “mother” of heavenly bodies and land forms, The Christian Post reports. “Manifesto of thought and intention, master of plan, light in every direction encouraged by affection, mother of the moon and stars, matter, and…

A Madman’s Diary leaves the audience with the knowledge that the madman has rejoined the ‘cannibals’ and pretends to be none the wiser, because he could not convince anyone, even his brother, to abandon the barbaric tradition. In New Woman, Wei Ming commits suicide, and her legacy is both literally and metaphorically stamped on by the uncaring masses; Tzu-chun leaves Chuan-sheng and later dies, and Chuan-sheng is reabsorbed into the apathetic majority as a consequence of his apathy toward…

The New Woman fiction of the 1880s and 1890s often expressed the displeasure with the contemporary status of women in marriage and in society. The novels portrayed their protagonists as unconventional and rebellious heroines who fought against the traditional Victorian male conception of females being an “angel in the house” and also challenged the traditional canon of morality and behavior. Many New Women novels strongly opposed the idea that home is the only proper place for a women to be. The…

In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, we see the New Woman first being introduced to the reader by the three women that Jonathan Harken encounters in Count Dracula’s castle. Mina and Lucy are a representation of the good, traditional Victorian women in comparison to those three women. In her article "Bram Stoker 's Dracula and Late-Victorian Advertising Tactics: Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies, and Porn", Tanya Pikula argues that “Dracula not only functions as a ‘kind of ‘test-bed’ for competing arguments…

Sanger, Margaret. “Woman and the New Morality.” Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentano’s, 1920. Bartleby. Web. 23 Oct. 2015. The book titled Women and the New Morality was written by Margaret Sanger. She lived in the Roaring Twenties. Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, Social Reformer and a nurse. In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Also, Sanger wrote multiple books…

Literature thus becomes a stage of conflict in Dracula, as adverse reactions to the emergence of the New Woman depart from Mina herself. She first references the concept after going out to tea with her best friend Lucy Westenra, in which she believes “[they] should have shocked the ‘New Woman] with [their] appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them!” (Stoker 123). Mina refers to a separate class of writers linked to this movement, which she supposes “will some day start an idea that men and…

epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still the obeying and supporting wife to Jonathan. Though she embodies some of its traits, Mina mocks the New Woman idea by stating that these women will wrongly have premarital sex with their husband’s to be. To support this statement, Mina writes the following…