the victorian coalition
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The Victorian Coalition. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union Anti-pornography and social purity advocates Religious leaders The American Medical Association. The WCTU White Ribbon Campaign. The “Comstock” Act of 1871. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Missouri, circa 1874
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Marie Stopes, British birth control advocate
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The Victorian Coalition• The Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• Anti-pornography and social purity advocates
• Religious leaders• The American Medical Association
The WCTU White Ribbon Campaign
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The “Comstock” Act of 1873• “Act of the Suppression of Trade In, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use”
• Prohibits sending of obscene literature through the mails
• Defines birth control information as obscene
• Comstock appointed assistant postmaster to enforce the law
Anthony Comstock
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Victoria Woodhull
• Stockbroker• Advocate of
women’s suffrage and “free love”
• First person to publish
Marx/Engels’ “Communist
Manifesto” in the United
States• Ran for
President of the United
States, 1872
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Right: Dr. Turner and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin; below: Meredith college graduates, 1903; below right: two new Ph.D.’s from the University of Chicago
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Dr. Edward Clark
• “Without denying the self-evident proposition, that whatever a women can do, she has a right to do, the question arises, what can she do?”
The United States from 1877 to 1914The 19th century body as closed system . . .
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How is your health?
• Asked by Marion Talbot of 705 U Chicago women
• 78 percent said good health
• 17 percent said bad health
• 5 percent said fair health
Marion Talbot in her later years
The United States from 1877 to 1914William Rainey Harper
President, University of Chicago
• More science; less classics
• Paid scholars more than east coast schools
• Pioneered in co-education schooling
The United States from 1877 to 1914The
Pragmatists• Encouraged experimentation and measurement rather than reliance on ideologies
• Rejected both Social Darwinism and Marxism
• People need to learn how to change their minds –John DeweyJohn Dewey
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Pragmatism is a “future-oriented instrumentalism that tries to deploy thought as a weapon to enable more effective action.” – Cornell West
Below: DuBois’ Philadelphia Negro and Alain Locke’s The New Negro
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Lewis Terman on women’s IQ, 1917
“There is no evidence of any wider range of intelligence among boys, such as has been commonly supposed to exist . . .
“The difference, if any, seems to be in the opposite direction.”
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Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith
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The invention of homosexuality
• Foucault: The concept of homosexuality invented by medical profession
• Became a thing people were rather than something they did
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Oscar Wilde tried for homosexuality in 1895
For much of nineteenth century homosexuality is tolerated, but . . .
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Steeplechase Park, New York
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Freud, Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1909
Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 1907, 1910
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Max Eastman
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The Armory Show, 1913
Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
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Margaret Sanger
Early advocate of birth control in the United States
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Emma Goldman