HST 122 -- Mass Society and Women's Rights

I. Mass Society and the "Golden Age" [MAP]
    A. Second Industrial Revolution
        - improvement in S.O.L. (cheaper food/goods, better diet, less disease)
        - new industries and bigger businesses = new jobs (esp. white collar jobs)
    B. Impact on Women
        1. New opportunities
            - Women Typists
        2. Cult of Domesticity/Cult of the Family
            - Typical Middle Class Victorian Family
    C. Other improvements:
        1. Leisure [Bicycle, Day at the beach]
        2. Education
        3. Housing [Electric Lights]
        4. Transportation [Electric Tram Car]
        5. Health Care
        6. Shopping [Department Store]

II. Women's Rights Movement
   A. Setting the Stage
        - traditional view of women
        - Enlightenment and the French Revolution
   B. 1830s
        - no common agenda; not many gains
   C. 1840-50s
        - the common agenda becomes political rights
   D. Late 19th and early 20th century
        1. mass demonstrations and rallies
          - e.g., First International Congress on Women's Rights (Paris, 1878)
          - eventually very large demonstrations
                - Hyde Park, London, 1908 - 250,000 women gathered
                - women marching for voting rights, London, c. 1912
                - women suffragist arrested, London, c. 1913
        2. violent tactics
          - e.g., Emmeline Pankhurst [DOC 26]
        3. The "New Woman"