User:Zara33/Women in the Victorian era/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
Under the ‘talk’ section, there was a comment on February 14, 2007, from user Asarelah stating that the article approached female sexuality in the Victorian Era from a superficial perspective because it presents information only on the middle and upper classes, neglecting the poor and working class of women. Also, they state that female hysteria is a significant facet of the section that needs to be addressed. There was also a comment on April 6, 2023 that says that the article as a whole lacks the objective tone that Wikipedia strives to obtain. The complaints outlined above are the issues I chose to address for this assignment–I set out to fix the tone of the section I chose in the article and then add information pertaining to sexuality, prostitution, and lock asylums and hospitals.

I am going to add a section called "Prostitution and Medicine" under the sexuality section because I think it will offer broader knowledge to Wikipedia users about the life of Victorian women and the ways in which sexuality and morality were also linked to class.

I am going to include information about two Victorian era doctors and their opposing beliefs about women and sexuality as a whole to offer objective knowledge to readers. I think that lock hospitals and asylums fit into this section nicely because it is linked to perceptions of working-class women and middle-class women and can address the concern from Asarelah on the talk page. I am also going to delete the "Cultural Taboos about the Female Body" section and relocate the information relating to women's underwear to the fashion section and the information about horseback riding will be relocated to the section about leisure.

If time permits, I am going to edit some of the language throughout the article to make it more objective.