Annotated Bibliography
Reframing the Victorian Era. Gender and Sexuality in the Victorian era. 9
DECEMBER 2014. http://reframingthevictorians.blogspot.com/2014/12/gender-
and-sexuality-in-victorian-era.html
This article talks about how gender pattern of patriarchy that binds
stereotypes were perceived in the women.
Victorian Era such as the original
model of the women taking care of
the offspring at home, doing the
household shore and, of course,
being the pleasant sexual object to
pleased her husband wishes and
necessities. On the other side, there
is the stereotype of the man who has
to go outside to work hard and bring
the food at home. The stereotypes of
the man which society always flatter
by putting it on the top above all
created creatures, including woman.
The article argued how these
stereotypes are not true at all, but
there exists some feminine power at
that Era who has fought to break the
They mentioned that one way
how women defied the social
construction was through prostitution.
Situation that leads girls to hard
criticism by society, labeling them as
the “fallen women.” It is mentions that
Henry Mayhew interviewed prostitutes
and released the idea of the 'happy
prostitute” which encapsulates this
"move away from the patriarchal
pattern of male supremacy/ female
dependency". This idea deals with
how the man becomes dependent on
the prostitute to fulfil his desires and
consequently this leads to female
supremacy in relation to the happy
prostitute.