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