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.
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978-0-86656-133-4 (9780866561334)
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Contents Introduction: In Domestic Captivity: A Decade in the Historiography of Women
Chapter I: From Patriarchal Household to Feminine Domesticity
Chapter II: Tying the Maternal Knot: 1830-1850
Chapter III: Beyond and Against Domesticity: Reform Associations and Communal Societies in the 1830s and '40s
Chapter IV: Imperial Isolation: Domestic Advice Literature of the 1850s
Chapter V: The Tears and Trials of Domesticity: Women's Fiction in the 1850s
Conclusion: Dismantling the Empire of the Mother
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