Napoleon : Restorer of the Patriarchy
● He tries to make divorce almost impossible to get for women
● Re-establishes the authority of husbands
○ Made sure fathers were an unchallenged authority
○ Fathers had to give their daughters permission until they were 25 (sons 21)
● Napoleon is basically the face of the patriarchy
● He also restores the catholic church
● Napoleon’s troops showed a fraternal model ; didn’t want to stray too far away from it
2/26/25
Factories would change things
● Tempting individuals away from the family industry with hopes of higher wages
○ It is not longer the center of industry
○ Not every member of the family would be performing an essential task
○ Tasks would be divided into gender specific categories but everyone would be
doing something
● Impact on Women’s Labor
○ No longer seen as an essential cog
○ Upper class women are starting to remove themselves from the workforce
○ Will see an increase in addressing the issue of suffrage ; women’s advocacy
● Impact of wage earners on women’s advocacy
● Agricultural Revolution
○ Need to diversify earnings
○ Able to produce more food more efficiently with less workers ; leads to these
workers needing to find a job
■ The solution was sending the younger generations to cities to factories,
sending them to be domestic servants
■ The type of labor is changing
○ Less data women’s continued labor in the home
■ Have less data on the work women did in the home ; tending to garden,
sewing, cleaning etc.
First Waves of Industrialization between 1750-1850
● Belief that industry was “a masculine” activity which a woman can neither understand or
master
● 10-20% of businesses in certain areas were controlled by widows
● Emergence of a new industrial bourgeoisie, neither gentry or aristocracy NOR proletariat
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Urbanization and Maternal Health
● Infant Mortality
● He tries to make divorce almost impossible to get for women
● Re-establishes the authority of husbands
○ Made sure fathers were an unchallenged authority
○ Fathers had to give their daughters permission until they were 25 (sons 21)
● Napoleon is basically the face of the patriarchy
● He also restores the catholic church
● Napoleon’s troops showed a fraternal model ; didn’t want to stray too far away from it
2/26/25
Factories would change things
● Tempting individuals away from the family industry with hopes of higher wages
○ It is not longer the center of industry
○ Not every member of the family would be performing an essential task
○ Tasks would be divided into gender specific categories but everyone would be
doing something
● Impact on Women’s Labor
○ No longer seen as an essential cog
○ Upper class women are starting to remove themselves from the workforce
○ Will see an increase in addressing the issue of suffrage ; women’s advocacy
● Impact of wage earners on women’s advocacy
● Agricultural Revolution
○ Need to diversify earnings
○ Able to produce more food more efficiently with less workers ; leads to these
workers needing to find a job
■ The solution was sending the younger generations to cities to factories,
sending them to be domestic servants
■ The type of labor is changing
○ Less data women’s continued labor in the home
■ Have less data on the work women did in the home ; tending to garden,
sewing, cleaning etc.
First Waves of Industrialization between 1750-1850
● Belief that industry was “a masculine” activity which a woman can neither understand or
master
● 10-20% of businesses in certain areas were controlled by widows
● Emergence of a new industrial bourgeoisie, neither gentry or aristocracy NOR proletariat
2/28/25
Urbanization and Maternal Health
● Infant Mortality
