Victorian Era?

Question

WHat are three values that Victorian society had towards women during the Victorian era. Please just list the values. For example one value would be:

1) Women were expected to be dependent on men

I need two or three more values that are different from the one that I wrote above.

Thanks

Answer 1

1. Women were not supposed to over-exert themselves either physically or mentally.
2. Victorian-era fashion for women consisted of extremely heavy, enormous, tight, and uncomfortable garments, including the infamous corset.
3. Paleness, or whiteness, was highly valued by men, at least in Europe.
4. It was thought that women had no natural interest in sex and that they should not enjoy sex and would not enjoy it even if they tried. It is now believed that "hysteria" was in fact a condition of chronic sexual neglect because it was thought the female orgasm did not exist.
5. Women, according to the male medical establishment, had "very delicate nerves" and commonly came down with mysterious psychological illnesses because ... that's just what women did.

Answer 2

I got a mix here of political and literary/artistic eras. The Roman era (some 100 years B.C) , the Elizabethan era (1558- 1603), The Industrial revolution (1760- 1850) Victorian era (1837-1901), Romantic era (1850-1920) are some that come to mind.

Answer 3

I know that historically 4 values were expected of women all the way up till recent times (and to a certain extent still are)

1. Piety: (Moral/Religious) Women are considered more moral than men (This started in the antebellum years, before women were seen as less moral than men) Just prior to the civil war there was a cultural shift in ideology that believed women were naturally more inclined to morality.

2. Submissiveness: To the father, husband and society at large. i.e. a woman was never deemed respected enough to give advice to a man, she did not "tell him what to do" she "Influenced him" (This ties to morality)

3. Purity: Pre-marriage: Virginity. Finds sex as repugnant. Post-marriage: Still doesn't enjoy it due to piety, considers it a service to the lusty immoral husband. Limits sex to procreation as much as possible while remaining submissive.

4. Domesticity: House-keeping and Child-rearing. Considered it 'natural' for women to be in the home and saw it as the ultimate womanly fulfillment.


All of the above were ideals (for white middle-upper class women), but not always practiced. Abortions and birth control were popular during this time negating the idea that the people of the past were somehow 'more pure'.

Answer 4

It's hard to generalize about the Victorian era because so many of the gendered values really varied depening on race/class. That said, I'll go ahead and generalize. Women were thought to be inherently spiritual and religous. They were presumed to have closer tied to the spirit world in unorthodox religous practices and in religions like Christianity they were assumed to be the quiet keepers of the true faith while men were the public faces.

Answer 5

The rights of married women were no better than those of children, for instance, they weren't allowed to vote, to sue and or to own property. On the other hand they were seen as pure and clean, their bodies were seen as temples to be adorned with jewellry and not used for exertion and pleasurable sex
A woman's main role was that of a wife and mother. They could not hold done a job unless it was a domestic servant and or a teacher. They were not allowed checking and or savings accounts
They were treated like saints with no rights..

Answer 6

1. Woman had no place in the office, her area of influence was at home with her children.

2 There was no place for an independent lady: she either belong to her father / brother, or later became a property of her husband.

3. Women were judged by their ability to produce children and the amount of worldly goods she can bring to man who is marrying her.

Answer 7

This may come as a shock to you, there were actually female teachers, female authors, female historians, female doctors, female,storekeepers, and females at colleges and universities. The only reason why not many people know this because their names were written with just their first initial of their first name and then their last name in full form.
Men were the only ones that had their full first names and full last names printed in full.

Answer 8

Women were expected to portray an air of "delicateness", almost to the point of being an invalid.

Answer 9

Women weren't supposed to wear makeup but the way they would redden their lips was to bite them.

A full set of healthy teeth was considered more desirable than a pretty face or a nice figure.

Answer 10

Women were supposed to trust and believe men for/in all.
Because they were supposedly above(them) in all.
Some women still do and expect a man to take "care" of her "needs"