Teaching as a Profession

Bellaigue, Christina de

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289981.003.0005

Educating Women 2007

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289981.003.0005

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Teaching as a Profession

Christina de Bellaigue¹

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“…In almost all other forms of female professionalism and artistic endeavour, including women's instrumental musical performance, much effort had to be spent in persuading society that women were justified in taking a role that could be done by men, often by arguing that because of its links to domestic life (as in education and nursing) it was particularly suited to female abilities. 13 Evidently, there was no need for this in the case of female singers. If people wished to enjoy the female singing voice in professional music-making, they had to tolerate at least, if not embrace, some form of 'professional' role for female singers.…”

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DEBATING FEMALE MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND ARTISTRY IN THE BRITISH PRESS, c. 1820–1850

Kennerley¹

2015

Hist. J.

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The entrance of women into the male-dominated spheres of the professions and the arts has been a major theme of women's and gender history in nineteenth-century Britain. In general, historians have located this development primarily in the second half of the century and depicted it as an important corollary to the political aims of the wider women's movement. In contrast, this article contends that an overlooked earlier context for the formation and emergence of ideas of female professionalism and artistry were the debates surrounding female singers in the press between c. 1820 and 1850. In this era, writers in newly emerging specialist music periodicals increasingly advocated a view of female singers as both professionals and artists. Such views did not dominate discourse, however. There remained a great deal of ambivalence even in specialist publications about just how far female singers should pursue the lifestyle of the professional artist, while in the mainstream press very different attitudes towards female singers prevailed. Although female musical professionalism and artistry therefore remained contested concepts, this article highlights the significance of these debates about female singers as an important source for the new ideas about women's professional and artistic work emerging in nineteenth-century British society.

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DEBATING FEMALE MUSICAL PROFESSIONALISM AND ARTISTRY IN THE BRITISH PRESS, c. 1820–1850

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