Event Title
The Friend and Helper and Advocate of Every Good Cause: Victorian Print Culture and the Dissemination of the New Woman Movement
Faculty Mentor
Holly Stave
Location
Hamilton Hall 115
Session
Session 1
Start Date
11-4-2014 2:15 PM
End Date
11-4-2014 3:15 PM
Description
Recent non-violent demonstrations including Egypt’s Youth Movement and America’s Occupy Movement validate the media’s role in collective action efforts. However, media was used to mobilize long before the proliferation of the internet. Though largely ignored in scholarship, the New Woman Movement was manufactured and disseminated via the print media and fiction of the Victorian era. This project explores depictions of female cross-dressing from the 1890s to demonstrate contrasting representations of New Women, the media’s role in asserting the legitimacy of the movement, and proves that utilizing both press and fiction publications can provide the most holistic assessment of historical phenomena.
The Friend and Helper and Advocate of Every Good Cause: Victorian Print Culture and the Dissemination of the New Woman Movement
Hamilton Hall 115
Recent non-violent demonstrations including Egypt’s Youth Movement and America’s Occupy Movement validate the media’s role in collective action efforts. However, media was used to mobilize long before the proliferation of the internet. Though largely ignored in scholarship, the New Woman Movement was manufactured and disseminated via the print media and fiction of the Victorian era. This project explores depictions of female cross-dressing from the 1890s to demonstrate contrasting representations of New Women, the media’s role in asserting the legitimacy of the movement, and proves that utilizing both press and fiction publications can provide the most holistic assessment of historical phenomena.