Social concern is what women from upper-class privileged backgrounds have always done in society.
There seems to be a multi-generational cycle between Puritanism and Hedonism that seems driven by upper class women, particularly those who are socially-dysfunctional, but there's got to be some third factor I haven't identified yet.
In the 1950's, it was the Country Women's Association. The Temperance Movement in the early part of last century. The Women's Suffrage Movement in the late Victorian Period. All the concerns of the Upper Class.
I don't see what is currently-happening with women's sexuality as Hedonism, but a new form of Puritanism, where women are trying to inflict punishment on themselves for their sexual desire by seeking out men incapable of offering commitment who can offer degradation. Hence, guilty feelings resulting in 'dirtiness'; regret mutating into 'rape'; and fallen women normalising casual sex and disease so everyone is similarly-'punished' the way they are.
Hence, irresponsible articles like 'Herpes Is So Whatevez' by Jezebel, or 'The 20's are your time for fucking strangers' by every feminist. "Join us. Be punished for your sins!"
Here's some bios of Victorian Era Social Activists, all of whom had power to change things at times when it supposedly didn't exist. I've highlighted all privilege, parallel concerns and sexual dysfunction. Sound familiar?
It's just one big cycle. Same old, same old.
There seems to be a multi-generational cycle between Puritanism and Hedonism that seems driven by upper class women, particularly those who are socially-dysfunctional, but there's got to be some third factor I haven't identified yet.
In the 1950's, it was the Country Women's Association. The Temperance Movement in the early part of last century. The Women's Suffrage Movement in the late Victorian Period. All the concerns of the Upper Class.
I don't see what is currently-happening with women's sexuality as Hedonism, but a new form of Puritanism, where women are trying to inflict punishment on themselves for their sexual desire by seeking out men incapable of offering commitment who can offer degradation. Hence, guilty feelings resulting in 'dirtiness'; regret mutating into 'rape'; and fallen women normalising casual sex and disease so everyone is similarly-'punished' the way they are.
Hence, irresponsible articles like 'Herpes Is So Whatevez' by Jezebel, or 'The 20's are your time for fucking strangers' by every feminist. "Join us. Be punished for your sins!"
Here's some bios of Victorian Era Social Activists, all of whom had power to change things at times when it supposedly didn't exist. I've highlighted all privilege, parallel concerns and sexual dysfunction. Sound familiar?
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Margaret Georgina Todd (1859-1918) was born into a stridently religious and wealthy Glaswegian family. She became a medical doctor in 1894 and practised at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and she lived with Sophia Jex-Blake as her companion and virtual disciple for 25 years. She committed suicide in 1918, six years after Jex-Blake’s death and a few months after seeing her biography of Jex-Blake in print..
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Mary Eleanor Benson (1863–90) was the daughter of E W Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and a social work activist whose writing and direct action during her short life contributed indirectly to the professionalization of social work in London. She read Modern Languages at Oxford and published essays on literature and history in addition to her work among the poor. She belonged to a fascinating and what would become an extensively documented household that seems to have been an unusual instance of a large Victorian family in which the matriarch as well as virtually all the siblings were devoted to passionate same-sex relationships.
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HOPKINS, JANE ELLICE (1836-1904), social reformer, born at Cambridge on 30 Oct. 1836, was younger daughter of William Hopkins [q. v.], mathematician and geologist, by his second wife, Caroline Boys.
She was a social purity campaigner who campaigned against the sexual double standard and fought to end the trade of prostitution that for her rivaled the sanction of African slavery as a national disgrace.
In 1888 failure of health compelled her active work to cease. During illness she wrote 'The Power of Womanhood; or Mothers and Sons' (1899)...
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Caroline Norton 1808-1877 was born in London, England to Thomas Sheridan and Caroline Henrietta Callander. Her father was an actor, soldier, and colonial administrator, and the son of the prominent Irish playwright and Whig statesman Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Her mother was Scottish, the daughter of a landed gentleman, Col. Sir James Callander of Craigforth and Lady Elizabeth MacDonnell, the sister of an Irish peer, the 1st Marquess of Antrim.
[Her] actions led to the passage of laws aimed at equalizing the rights of men and women in marriage. After Norton left an unhappy marriage, her husband denied her parental access and attempted to render his wife penniless. Norton launched a pamphlet and lobbying campaign to change the law. The result was the passage of the Infant Custody Act (1839), which secured mothers custody of their young children. In the 1840s and 50s, her husband’s attempt under the law to reduce his payments to her and to take over her inheritance erupted in another scandalous court case that led her to tackle the law’s denial of women’s property rights. Her pamphlet campaign was influential in the securing passage of the Matrimonial Causes Act (1857).
It's just one big cycle. Same old, same old.