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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Republican Motherhood"”.
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Republican Motherhood and the Early Road to Women's Rights: 1765-1848
This paper explores the development and participation of women in American politics from pre-American Revolution through the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Women's involvement in education, industrialization, and westward expansion are also discussed.
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Our Duty, Our Rights, Our America: Women in American Nativism 1830 - 1930
… looks at how nativist women used the concepts of Republican Motherhood, woman's moral superiority, and woman's innate patriotism to justify their activities and campaign for woman suffrage.</p>
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
… goddess can be charted parallel to the rise of Republican Motherhood ideology and anxieties about female autonomy. This thesis will also explore the complex powerful nature of femininity in relation to societal norms and additional iconography, including transgressions of sex and sexuality, …
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The contribution of Victor Hugo to the liberation, emancipation, and changing perceptions of women in 19th century French society
… of domesticity bolstered by the ideology of ‘republican motherhood’, this thesis engages in a re-appraisal of Hugo’s literary representation of maternity which identifies the maternal as a universal quality of devotion and self-sacrifice to which all humankind must aspire for the creation of a …
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… and moral virtue to civic duty and “republican motherhood”) across a range of domestic objects, these large- and small-scale manufacturers made the political rhetoric of “American” republicanism into a shared cultural aesthetic and paved the way for its consumption and domestication …