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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Cult of True Womanhood"”.
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Maids in Their-Land: A Study of the Effects of the Cult of True Womanhood on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
The "cult of true womanhood," as it came to be called by many modem day feminist critics, began in the early 1800's and thrived until it was trampled by the social and sexual revolution of the 1920's. According to the philosophy of true womanhood, the four basic feminine virtues necessary to being …
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The Gendered Geography of War: Confederate Women As Camp Followers
<p>The American Civil War is often framed as exclusively masculine, consisting of soldiers, god-like generals, and battle; a sphere where women simply did not enter or coexist. This perception is largely due to the mobilization of approximately six million men, coupled with the Victorian era which …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… space in American Literature has been the source of much critical debate and discussion. Although the physical space is now settled the ideology of the frontier and the need for continuous expansion still permeates American culture. Additionally, the cultural imperative to traverse new ground, …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… popular novels, publicized and enhanced the ""Cult of True Womanhood"" (Barbara Welter) and the ""Cult of Female Invalidism"" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, Ann Douglas Wood, etc.) via portrayals of weak, submissive and sickly female heroines. Partial challenges to this notion have been …
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“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
… in which American Victorian flora and garden culture and the amateur botany movement influenced and circumscribed American poetry by women from the late Transcendental period to the paleo-Modern period. Delineating an ecofeminist tradition, as well as human and feminist geography, I …
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“The Stories That We Tell”: Mormon Women, Autobiography, and the Mormon Collective Memory of Persecution as Influenced by The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
<p>The collective memory of persecution as formulated by Parley P. Pratt in his autobiography impacted the Mormon community for generations. With the help of theorists Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assman, and others to explain collective memory and how it is transmitted, this dissertation examines the …