19 Facts About New Woman

New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century.

New Woman pushed the limits set by a male-dominated society, especially as modeled in the plays of Norwegian Henrik Ibsen .

The term New Woman always referred to women who exercised control over their own lives be it personal, social, or economic.

Some admirers of the New Woman trend found freedom to engage in lesbian relationships through their networking in women's groups.

New Woman was a result of the growing respectability of postsecondary education and employment for women who belonged to the privileged upper classes of society.

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In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such "New Woman" plays as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, Henry Arthur Jones's play The Case of Rebellious Susan and George Bernard Shaw's controversial Mrs Warren's Profession and Candida .

Mina Harker goes on to embody several characteristics of the New Woman, employing skills such as typing and deductive reasoning, to the amusement of the older male characters.

Lucy Westrenra wonders if the New Woman could marry several men at once, which shocks her friend, Mina.

In fiction, New Woman writers included Olive Schreiner, Annie Sophie Cory, Sarah Grand, Mona Caird, George Egerton, Ella D'Arcy and Ella Hepworth Dixon.

Some examples of New Woman literature are Victoria Cross's Anna Lombard, Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman and H G Wells's Ann Veronica .

New Woman's talk and subsequent story on the topic, demonstrated that in Chinese society, women lacked the economic funds needed to be able to survive outside of her family and husband.

An early New Woman in the context of the Chinese New Woman movement, Ida Kahn, born in China, was adopted by an American female missionary who took her in 1892 to the United States to receive a college education in medicine.

New Woman Women, according to Barbara Molony, emerged in the late 1920s, out of the New Woman Culture Movement and were viewed as the "educated, patriotic embodiment of a new gender order working to overcome the oppressions of the Confucian family system and traditional society".

New Woman Women were usually female students who in appearance wore eyeglasses, had short bobbed hair, and unbound feet, and in practice usually lived on their own, had open, casual relationships, and aimed to be economically independent from their family.

The New Woman was all things positive in relation to modernity and "symbolized the vision of a future strong nation" but with aspects of modernity and revolution.

In Korea in the 1920s, the New Woman's Movement arose among educated Korean women who protested the Confucian patriarchal tradition.

The New Woman's Movement is often seen to be connected with the Korean magazine New Women, founded in 1920 by Kim Iryop, which included other key figures such as Na Hye-sok.

People worried that the concept of the New Woman being promulgated in Seito would disrupt the existing order and social stability.

One essential distinction between the iteration of the New Woman that emerged in Japan and that which emerged in many Western countries is that the Japanese New Woman was not directly connected to the national suffrage movement.