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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"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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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
… between Harriet Jacobs’ representations of womanhood in <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> and the domestic ideal which promoted a woman’s role as nurturer and nourisher. The main female characters in the text, particularly Mrs. Flint, Aunt Martha, and Linda Brent, highlight the …
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The Gendered Geography of War: Confederate Women As Camp Followers
… to achieve respectability as the Cult of True Womanhood. The Cult of True Womanhood demanded that women be pious, pure, and submissive within the domestic sphere. It is with this foundation that the camp followers can be analyzed. Their actions appeared to break with the Cult of True …
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“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
… and align it with the Protestant Cult of True Womanhood, and a need for thousands of new species of plants to be classified in a “New World,” (amateur botanizers in the field contributing to a shared network linking them with professional scientists), all contributed to the mainstay of …
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Working in the Diminutive: Women Professionals in Postbellum U.S. Literature (1861-1905)
… in employments outside it. Straddling ideals of “True Womanhood,” which emphasized meekness and domesticity, among other traits, and “Real Womanhood, which suggested women could be more robust without loss of femininity, women set the parameters for proper employments and created new niches of …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… placed on the female through the ‗Cult of True Womanhood‘ and Chopin, Cather, Glaspell and Robinson‘s non-conformist attitude to this feminine archetype. The main conclusions drawn from the exploration of texts are the interconnectivity between home and the ‗unheimlich‘ and homesickness, …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… 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 launched …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
… uses of textiles, resist the domesticity of true womanhood. I consider works by Susan Warner, Canterbury Shaker sister Hester Ann Adams, Harriet Wilson, Irish-Catholic novelist Mary Anne Sadlier, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps to argue for textiles' role in the defense and …
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
… writings, I argue, challenge ideologies of “True Womanhood” that define women as submissive and passive. Instead, these texts demonstrate how women equally contributed to establishing national identity in the United States by defining appropriate gender performance for men and women. My …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
… pleasures offered by fashion) in a way that many True Womanhood devotees did not. While these novelists' appreciation for pleasure is steeped in the sense that such pleasure transgresses normative codes of femininity and of morality---very few of the fashion lovers examined in the following …
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The Victorians' "unclaimed dividend" : a literary study of the middle-class spinster.
… rhetoric classified Victorian women as true, fallen, widowed, blue-stocking, married—any number of designations—with the facility that Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor and innumerable blue book reports categorized class and labor. The advent of "redundant" or "surplus" women in …
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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
… the principle. A believer in the Cult of True Womanhood and as such a well-versed martyr, Louisa demonstrated a predisposition for dramatic suffering like Parley P. Pratt by outlining her status as chosen of God through her distress defined mostly by her troubled marital relationship.</p> …