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The Victorian ideology of Femininity The French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose demands for human liberty had been influential upon a number of movements for political reform, forcefully articulated some of the most restrictive tenets of what can be called the nineteenth century’s ideology of femininity. ‘The whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to console them, and to make life sweet and agreeable to them – these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.’ The Victorian ideology of Femininity Th