Victorian culture gendered noise as masculine and silence as feminine domesticity

Evidence

“Bravura noise-making was an essential signal of masculine identity for much of this era,” writes Peter Bailey, an authority on sound in Victorian England. The insistence, on the part of Florence Nightingale and others, that sick men needed quiet to heal accentuated the link between impotence, silence, and the home. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 163

“Bravura noise-making was an essential signal of masculine identity for much of this era,” writes Peter Bailey, an authority on sound in Victorian England. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 163

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 163
• XREF: connects to: Industrial wealth created the very leisure class that then condemned industrial noise — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 158; Parole stereotypes split along gendered lines, generating stereotyped dichotomies distinct for men versus women — Dangerous men, evil women: Gender and parole decisionmaking; Noise by-laws function as ethnographic records of cultural sound attitudes — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 646 (+4 more)

Related

• Parole stereotypes split along gendered lines, generating stereotyped dichotomies distinct for men versus women #expands (0.90) — Dangerous men, evil women: Gender and parole decisionmaking

Broader Connections

• Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination #expands (0.65) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267