The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domesticity, 1830 to 1860Psychology Press, 1982 - 170 Seiten This stimulating book is a comprehensive record of the antebellum period. It examines various aspects of social history and intellectual history of that period in the context of the 19th century's "cult of domesticity." The development of the ideology of domesticity in this period and its implications are clearly explored in this startling and important feminist work. |
Inhalt
In Domestic Captivity A Decade in | 1 |
From Patriarchal Household to Feminine | 19 |
Tying the Maternal Knot 1830 1850 | 45 |
Beyond and Against Domesticity Reform | 71 |
Imperial Isolation Domestic Advice Literature | 97 |
The Tears and Trials of Domesticity Womens | 115 |
Dismantling the Empire of the Mother | 143 |
References | 149 |
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The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domesticity, 1830 to 1860 Mary P. Ryan Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1982 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection affectionate American Temperance ante-bellum anti-slavery anxiety Arthur authority bonds Boston Brook Farm Catharine Beecher Catharine Sedgwick child-rearing childhood conjugal contradictions cult of domesticity cultural decade didactic discourse domes domestic literature domestic writers Dwight early economic emotional England family manuals father female moral reform feminine feminism feminist fiction Fourierists gender Harriet Beecher Stowe heart heroine historians Horace household husband Ibid ideal ideology images individual industrial intemperance isolated home John Humphrey Noyes labor literary Lydia Child Lydia Maria Child Lydia Sigourney magazines male Mann marital marriage maternal mestic middle-class moral education movement nineteenth century novel numbers nurture Oneida parents patriarchal Philadelphia Pierre Pierre's political publishers readers relationship role romantic romantic love Sarah Grimke Sedgwick Papers sentimental sexual Shakers slave slavery social reproduction society ticity Timothy Shay Arthur tion Uncle Tom's Cabin village wife wives woman womanhood women women's history Wright York young youth