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Gender, citizenship, nationalism: ideas and reality
Constructed identitiesnot neutral:
classicalpol. phil.ethnicity
reality different
but, ideals I institutionalized
variety action
Deconstructing Nationalisms:the Sabine Women and founding western societies
De Bolognia, 1583 (Florence)
Poussin, 1635 (MMA, N.Y.)
David, 1799 (Louvre, Paris)
Picasso, 1963 (Boston)
Industry transformed lives ‘Although the Industrial Revolution took decades to spread it was truly revolutionary in the way it fundamentally changed Europeans, their society, and their relationship to the rest of the world’
Changing ideas of success, status and achievement
textile workers Vuillard, ‘the Bon Marche’
and‘these women were made for
walking’
Reality of women
Women in society Dominated by ideals about women
(ie not real)
Religious revivals across the century
The possibility for improvement
Josephine Butler (1828 - 1906)
• fought against CD Acts, • for the education of women, • age of consent raised from 13 to
16
• other ♀ – abolitionsuffrage
Contagious Disease Actsturning expectations into a public voice
Treponema pallidum
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
‘Heathen sisters’
zenana
Political Rights
Women’s Coronation Procession, 1911
Emiline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst
Suffrage:votes for men, votes for women
• place in society – moral • role in democracy -- suffrage