men and women and equality
- Created by: floramorris
- Created on: 04-04-19 09:58
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- it is impossible for men and women to be equal:
- YES: spheres of influence
- public sphere: overlaps with money and economics.
- private sphere: domestic (Nora)
- recent 100 years: women demand equal treatment
- e.g. right to vote work
- the new woman
- loan
- only fully develop by leaving
- "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt"
- "thats like a woman"
- "most commonly a mother influence"
- rossetti:
- shut out
- "iron bars"
- "doors"
- suggest she is held back from being all she can in society.
- spiritual barrier
- male creating barriers: male spirit at the door.
- only place women had real power was in private sphere
- questioning Rossetti as a feminist
- shut out
- public sphere: overlaps with money and economics.
- NO: Nora's manipulation over Torvald
- "if your little squirrel were to ask you something very prettily"
- "you have no idea how many expenses we skylarks and squirrels have"
- psychoanalytical
- "poor little girl"
- helpless little mortal
- freud repetition compulsion
- you are an odd little soul, very like your father
- feminist reading
- "to me it seemed a problem for humanity in general"
- "a dolls house may not even e concerned with the women's cause but rather about humans and individuals in general - Tempelton
- rossetti
- attitudes towards women and independence
- Rossetti's experience of love
- ironically blesses
- hearth
- board
- mariage bed
- MORE COMPLICATED: society
- men and women oppress each other
- marxist
- "all characters serve as foils for the central struggle between Nora and Torvald"
- micro cosmetics of society
- angel in the house
- woman in the attic
- "no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves"
- rossetti
- different kinds of women in R's work
- readers see into life of typical victorian woman
- fallen women
- conclusion
- a call for women to see a variety of women as they are instead of polarising women as fallen women or angels
- in order for their to be equality, men needed to view women as equals
- diffusee the gap in the spheres of equality
- women got the vote in 1928
- seemed to be a problem for humanity in general -- Ibsen
- YES: spheres of influence
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