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Work Ao3 PL/ADH - Coggle Diagram
Work Ao3 PL/ADH
The Napoleonic Code
- Legally enshrined the notion that women were subordinate
- Women couldn't take out a contract/divorce/write a will - completely subordinated to their husband
"elle est sa propriété, comme un arbre fruitier est la propriété du jardinier"
Milton's daughters
- were not academic and resented the schooling their father put them to.
- taughts his daughters to read and write so they could dicatet for him - often in languages they did not understand
"I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman"
- work was not about the work itself but the principle - served as the daily symbol of what you believed in. Disappointed when people returned to monarchy.
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Laura Keeler
- inspo for the character of Nora
- committed to an asylum after forging a cheque to secretly take out a loan to pay for her husband
"New Woman"
- feminist ideal first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Less constrained by Victorian norms and domesticity than previous generations, the new woman had greater freedom to pursue public roles and even flaunt her "sex appeal," a term coined in the 1920s and linked with the emergence of the new woman. She challenged conventional gender roles
Women in Ibsen's life
- Suzannah Ibsen
- To her husband, she was a 'nanny' (as described by Bjornson)-
his mother-in-law,Magdalene Thoreson, who was a leader of the feminist movement in Norway.
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Ibsen + wife: intellectual match that Milton wanted? Would he accept he was intellectually matched by a woman?
Address to League for Women's Rights: job of women to fix society and only "as mothers" can they do this. A coward?