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The removal of armpit and leg hair by American women became a new practice in the early 20th century due to a confluence of multiple factors. One cultural change was the definition of femininity. In the Victorian era, it was based on moral character. This shifted in the early 1920s when the new feminine idea became based on the body. [4]
Scholarly discussions of Victorian women's sexual promiscuity was embodied in legislation (Contagious Diseases Acts) and medical discourse and institutions (London Lock Hospital and Asylum). [7] The rights and privileges of Victorian women were limited, and both single and married women had to live with heterogeneous hardships and disadvantages.
#5 American Aviator Matilde Moisant, 1912. She Was The Second Woman In The United States To Get A Pilot's License ... Victorian Women Managing A Hard Route, 1890s. Image credits: Electrical-Aspect ...
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [158] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837 – March 21, 1903) was a White American woman who was enslaved and later released by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. [1] She later lectured about her experiences.
Rebecca Cole (1846–1922) American physician, by 1867 she was the second African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States; Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831–1895) American physician, by 1864 she was the first African-American woman to become a doctor in the United States; Maria Dalle Donne (1778–1842), Italian physician
Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet and correspondent; Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer; first American-born woman to publish in own name; Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), Norwegian poet; Anna Bunina (1774–1829), Russian poet; Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), English poet and dramatist
Alice Austen House or Clear Comfort in 2002. Elizabeth Alice Austen (March 17, 1866 – June 9, 1952) was an American photographer working in Staten Island.She is best known for her street photography and her intimate depictions of women's lives and relationships in the Victorian era.