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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"separate spheres"”.
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
<p>This dissertation examines nineteenth century U.S. women’s maritime writings to re-evaluate and more accurately represent the roles women played in society. I contend that the nineteenth century ship is a microcosm of the United States and women’s sea experiences and maritime writings reveal …
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Separate spheres : women in the responsa of Rabbi Moses Feinstein
… synagogue and ritual responsibility. These three spheres demonstrate Feinstein's commitment to gender separation. Clearly, his ideal of distinctiveness causes him to separate Jew from non-Jew, Orthodox from non-Orthodox as well as female and male. In addition, his cumulative decisions in these …
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One Nation, Separate Spheres: An Examination of Red Power Activism Between Two Mohawk Communities
… particular regions of tribes simultaneously, but separately protesting local, state, or federal legislation that threatened aspects of their tribal sovereignty. The occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 by a group called Indians of All Tribes marked the beginning of pan-Indian activism, inspiring …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
By marking out a pattern of retreat in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public …
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Separate Spheres Collide: The Economic Influence Of Slavery On Sarah Josepha Hale's Northwood (1827 And 1852)
The debate over slavery was one of the catalysts for Sara Josepha Hale's emergence from the domestic realm into the public sphere as a writer with a moral voice opposing social injustice yet limited by powerful economic pressures. The controversy resulted in Hale's publication of Northwood (1827), …
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"Keeping up her geography": Women's writing and geocultural space in early twentieth-century United States literature and culture
… of that binary as primarily a manifestation of separate spheres ideology. Recently, literary critics and historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to mistake fiction for reality. However, there is a tendency in this criticism to ignore the work of feminist political …
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Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts
… texts that emphasize the Victorian ideology of separate spheres. Many scholars imagine the separation of spheres as simply relegating women to a domestic sphere that reinforced traditional values and restricted their power. However, these works demonstrate that opportunities for power and queer …
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Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide
… particularly as they arise from the ideology of separate spheres and patriarchal assumptions concerning the public-private divide and the assumed separation of family and work. I argue family business daughters have inherited a phenomenal work ethic that makes them successful business women yet …
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"Feminizing the voice of literary authority: Sarah J. Hale's editorship of the ""Ladies' Magazine"" and ""Godey's Lady's Book"""
… America, specifically the notion of separate spheres for women and men and the belief in women's ""natural"" moral superiority. Rather than equate such domestic and separatist ideology with women's confinement in the home, Hale used it to increase women's intellectual and literary …
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Breaking the Cycle: African American Family Involvement and the Transition From Early Childhood to Elementary Education
… incidents were associated with the theory of separate spheres of influence which consists of a belief that parents and schools should remain their separateness. Parent perceptions and their knowledge about school was also a relevant factor for these African American parents. Today's changing …
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"From the smoke of the town, to the fields and the groves": gender, class and the pursuit of leisure in London's eighteenth-century pleasure gardens
… the limitations imposed on women's history by "separate spheres” historiography and contributes to our understanding of women's work because it shows that women worked outside a domestic economy. In pleasure gardens, middling and working women encountered each other while they challenged gender …
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Child as Cure: The Idealized Child in the Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett
… Burnett reaffirms traditional family structure, separate spheres ideology, and class hierarchy.
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Understanding the Learning & Advocacy Needs of a Twice-Exceptional Student Through A Strengths-Based Lens: A Case Study in California
… met his dual educational needs by adopting a <em>separate spheres approach</em>, two key component themes. Another key component theme that emerged from the data is the way in which <em>complexity</em> engaged the student in learning.</p>
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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis of the Prevailing Power Dynamics Between Women and Male Authority Figures Through Gilman and Freud.
… and perpetuated the patriarchal ideology of “separate spheres” through the feminization of mental illness and the stigmatization of female sexuality. Both <em>The Yellow Wallpaper </em>and <em>Dora</em> provide us with prominent examples of women who are labeled “insane” or “hysterical” as …
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… to successfully resist the middle class ideal of separate spheres for men and women. Finally it offers further evidence to challenge the claim made by some historians that all British Victorian feminists were imperialist in nature.
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ENDLESS SCROLLING: TECHNOLOGY, (DIS)CONNECTION, AND PLACE IN TIMES OF COVID-19
… geographical distance. For many, the seemingly separate spheres of the work, home, and social life all began to take place in one physical, and many virtual, spaces. Though it allows for a smoother transition to life at a social distance, communication technology is not always viewed as a …
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'Woman's mission': the temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c.1870-1914
… lives of middle-class women. The ideology of ‘separate spheres’ is a leitmotif of much of women’s history, and discussions of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres are often linked to social class. My discussion of a ‘feminine public sphere’ is designed to reveal the ways in which women negotiated …
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Maternal Emotion Regulation as a Moderator of Relation of Parenting Stress to Dyadic Interaction in Mother-Child Dyads during Preschool
… possible to partition the mother and child into separate spheres, per family systems theory. Maternal parenting behaviors cannot be conceptualized in isolation of the mother-child dyad; therefore, it is important to understand maternal processes and behaviors that relate to parenting and also the …
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The Power To Protect Themselves: Gender, Protective Labor Legislation, And Public Policy In Michigan, 1883-1913
… a gendered labor state. Public policy reinforced separate spheres of work for men and women and preserved breadwinning for men. This study shows how the state shaped workers experiences and how workers attempted to shape the state; it illustrates how gender transformed legal results for laborers. …
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Gendered Justice: Women Workers, Gender, and Master and Servant Law in England, 1700-1850
… existed between the laws roots in an ideology of separate spheres and the reality of its application, which included its targeted use to discipline a female workforce that was part of the vanguard of the Industrial Revolution. A close reading of the legislation and judges decisions demonstrates …
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