https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi en-us 2018-12-03 18:36:27 UTC 2018-12-05 17:52:34 UTC hello@padlet.com vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310577846 What is it?
The woman question was a debate back in the Victorian Era regarding the importance and role of women in this era; whether or not they should be allowed to do the same things men are allowed to do.    

More broadly of changing political, economic, and professional roles for women and of social and sexual liberation; gained increasing urgency in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as activists grew more militant and the government responded with ever more oppressive measures]]> 2018-12-03 18:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310577846 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310579401 What should you know about it?

• Within the framework of “separate spheres,” a woman’s clearly delineated position was that of moral and source of peace and comfort for a man who every day was forced to fall in order to gain. Within their constrained and clearly defined roles, women were believed to have transformative power.
•  In the 1850s and 1860s, early women’s movements were cause-driven and reform-based, focusing primarily on issues of particular material concern to women: marriage, property, employment, education. 
• The New Woman emerged at the end of the century as a type, a symbol, a social force. To her supporters, she was liberated from the domestic ideology that governed women’s place in the Victorian era.

]]> 2018-12-03 18:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310579401 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310583151 How did it affect society?

Unlike much of late Victorian society, these novelists saw the New Woman not as a pathology but with a sympathetic eye; as Teresa Mangum writes, the New Woman and those who wrote about her “expanded the nineteenth-century imagination by introducing what we would now call feminist issues and feminist characters into the realm of popular fiction” Other critics and literary historians, such as Ann Ardis, note the importance of New Woman fiction to the development and concerns not only of the feminist movement but to modernism as a whole. ]]> 2018-12-03 18:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/310583151 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311421122 What is it?

The Life of a Governess is a woman who taught in a school; however is a woman who lives at home and traveled to her employer’s house to teach, or a woman who lived in her employer’s home, taught children, and served as a companion to them.

]]> 2018-12-05 15:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311421122 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311422130 What should you know about it?

Employing a governess meant that the family was wealthy and could afford a personal nanny and signified the status and power of the family.  Nonetheless, governesses were often accused of using flattery to gain favor and make themselves esteemed by the men of the household however, if they were unattractive, they were not employed.  In fact, the governess and the master often had a very tense and awkward relationship. 
The governess was often selected if she were foreign as it would give the family the ability to learn another language and the women in the household would not feel threatened, as the governess would not have a set place in society.  On the other hand, governesses would teach the children math, arithmetic, reading, writing, and foreign languages.  In addition, governesses taught the children how to behave in society, manners, discipline, and domestic duties. ]]> 2018-12-05 15:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311422130 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311423500 How did it affect society?
The Life of a Governess has a variety of positive and lasting effects in the children and society in general.  Not only does a governess help children advance themselves in an educational aspect, their influence in society is impacted in a positive manner as well for governesses taught the children proper behavior in society, manners, discipline, and domestic duties, which enhances how the children would treat others.  Discipline brings stability and structure into the children’s life. It teaches a person to be responsible and respectful to themselves and others.

]]> 2018-12-05 15:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311423500 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311429453 What is it?

This provides the significant differences between the wealthy to poor classes during the Victorian Era.  The wealthy women were just there to look pretty and play the part as they had lower class servants do anything that was need around their household.  The middle class women had often some education and had the opportunity to be governesses or anything along that range.  However, lower class women did everything that men did among the same class, which was working in dangerous workplaces such as textile factories and manual labor.]]> 2018-12-05 16:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311429453 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311430325 What should you know about it?

Wealthy women were expected to marry and take part in their husbands' interests and business, as well as have a family. Wealthy women did not know how to cook or clean properly because their house cleaners took care of the household chores.  Instead, they spent their time sewing, reading and writing letters. Other duties included learning etiquette rules, entertaining guests and visiting friends. Wealthy women had a very social lifestyle and were involved within the community. Which was very different from many women were driven to work as servants for the richer families. They ate left over food, and were not paid much. Their days were spent cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the households needs]]> 2018-12-05 16:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311430325 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311431484 How did it affect society?
The figure of a governess in a household helped to validate the social status of the family she worked for. Employing a governess meant that the family could afford her and signified the status and power of the family.


]]> 2018-12-05 16:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311431484 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311469962 Sometimes, children felt closer to the governess than their own mother. This was because of the amount of time spent the governess spent with the children during the formative age and the lack of intimacy between children of upper-class households and their mothers

There were different kinds of governesses, in fact, there were three types of governesses in the Victorian Age.

1. The first one was a school teacher
2. The next was the one who resided in one place and traveled to another place to teach.
3. The third one lived with the family and also served a motherly role to them.

]]> 2018-12-05 17:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311469962 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311470434 What are the different types of Governesses?

A. Teacher, mother role, traveler.
B. Teacher, Doctor
C. Teacher
D. None of the above]]> 2018-12-05 17:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311470434 vivianmor2001 https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311475311 What kind of roles did "the woman question" change?

A. Political, economic, and professional
B. Economic, social
C. Political]]> 2018-12-05 17:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vivianmor2001/8n5ltdn2kgwi/wish/311475311