HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I Connections II Ecology of Meat III Horses IV Logic of the Market Outline of Current Lecture I Sex and Steel II 19th Century Sexuality III Charity Girls IV Causes V Changes to American Sexuality Current Lecture I Sex and Steel a Innate natural instinctive primal b Not the same in every culture highly cultural i Different norms and practices c Large scale production i Changed lives sexual habits th II 19 Century Sexuality a Two patterns b Highly supervised i Communal control c Sharply Defined i Consensus on right wrong and good bad d Supervision i Parents older siblings 1 Social interaction of young unmarried adults ii Community settings 1 Date on front porch parlor 2 Parents extended family siblings 3 Church community social gatherings work iii Young unmarried couples never got to spend time alone iv Older people in community were in control These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute e Sharply defined i Appropriate vs Inappropriate ii Driven by female chastity 1 Public behavior flirting determines iii Changes by 1920s 1 Flappers much freer w her sexuality 2 More individual control over their sexuality iv Agents of Change 1 Bessemer Steel production process refrigerated meat 2 Not RR barons steal tycoons 3 Young unmarried working class females a On bottom rung of social influence III Charity Girls a Definition i Young single working class women who engaged in sexual activity not for money but for gifts attention and a good time 1 1890s 1910s ii Most lived in cities on own w family iii Immigrants large percentage 1 Rebellion against Old World culture parents iv Defined as respectable 1 Prostitutes a Money b Not respectable 2 Flappers a 1920s b Middle Upper class b How we know i Semi literate at best ii Didn t have power in society to leave written records iii Middle class reformers 1 Social work 2 Outraged at working class women 3 Targets for study efforts of reform 4 Reformers learned wrote up info in reports 5 Tried to find social activities for alternative more respectable behavior 6 Misunderstanding c Urban Space i Hadn t existed prior to late 19th century ii Saloons theater amusement parks d Congregate among other people and who don t care anonymous e Picking Up i Part of this world ii Charity Girl congregated she could pick up a guy iii Acceptable way to get a date iv Women usually initiated v Expected for a good time f Treating i Woman initiates he would treat her w gifts tickets rides ice cream ii Often young woman s avenue to leisure 1 Only chance for urban leisure iii Working not making much g Costs i 9 10 weeks average men s wage ii 6 5 weeks department store clerk 1 Wardrobe iii New urban spaces 1 New sexually demonstrative 2 Tough dances 3 Vaudeville sexual innuendo 4 Yield to cajoling groping 5 Lose control over psychological and physical self a Had control b When asked out always say she won t have sex h Exchange i Have bargaining power ii Play social space to her advantage iii Sexual harassment physical abuse rape unwanted pregnancies iv Negotiation IV Causes a Everyday choices add up to big changes b Urbanization i Rise of big cities large number of people congregate ii Space freed from supervision c Industrialization i Created class of single people ii Independent can support and feed yourself on your own iii Rural if wanted to eat had to partake in heterosexual nuclear family unit d Mass Consumption i Charity girl had to be a consumer nice dress perfume V Significance a Produces more fluid understanding b People begin to distinguish Charity Girls from prostitutes c Came rom bottom up i By 1920s captivates middle upper class flappers ii Trickle up