Theory of Feminism Review of Related Theories

From the explanation above, the writer can see that during 17 th and 18 th century, only the middle class girls can go to school. They learn to read and write and they learn language like French and needle work, music and dancing. A Hundred Years Ago: Britain in the 1880s in Words and Photographs book, Colin Ford and Brian Horrison stated that the highest class was the Nobility and Gentry, who inherited their land, titles, and wealth. To the outsider, it might seem as if women of this class did very little--but their work was very important and sometimes very hard, as they were expected to manage the home and the household. As EttyRaverat, who was a young woman in the late 1800s, said, Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves, they told others what to do and how to do it Horrison and Ford: 1983, 226. From the statement above, the writer see the upper class women are expected to manage the home and household. They have no duty outside home. They have some servant to help cooking and cleaning the house. The upper class women only command the servants doing what and how to do the household. Moreover, Lucy Bushman writesan article entitled “Family Life in the 18th Century”2008,she stated that women and men of the upper classes did not marry for love. Instead, they married strictly for financial and social reasons. Women who wished to continue living within a wealthy household simply did not marry a man of the middle or lower class http:EzineArticles.com?expert=Lucy_Bushman . From Lucy‟s statement, the writer can see that the upper class men and women marry for financial supported and social status not for love. They want to live in prosperity. Moreover, from the documents of history site 2000 it is clearly explained about women. Women typically did not work outside the home. They were expected to focus on her family. Families tended to be large, and it was common for a woman to have five or more children. www.bcpcc.comOutreachss10filesmiddleupper.html In the essay about an upper class girls in the 1800 century “The Marriageable Mind” 2001 written by Prof. David Porter, he stated that a girls education often included basic reading and writing as well feminine activities such as needlework and dancing. Girls might also read Shakespearean plays and poetry. During earlier times, even these most basic academic skills were not commonly taught to middle-classes girls. However, when young aristocratic men went on the grand tour they met young French women who could have conversations about music, art, and literature. By comparison, English gentlewomen, seemed dull and uninteresting because they could only talk about balls and fashion. As a result, British mothers thought it wise to educate their daughters enough to compete with these French women in the marriage market. www.umich.edu~ecestudent_projectsgrowing_uptitania-edu.html . In Everman in European ed. Vol 1, The Preindustrial, Millenia book, Mitchell and Deak stated that during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and the nineteenth centuries, “England is known as free of sexual irregularly than any other country in the world. In the seventeenth century, there is unquestionably a greater laxity of moral in this respect, but at no time as the excess license associated with the restoration period in England 1981: 219 ”. As the statement above, the writer can see that free sex and