Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830-1860
by Mary P. Ryan
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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.Tags
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Mary P. Ryan is John Martin Vincent Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Mysteries of Sex returns to-and fundamentally reinterprets-the theme of her first book, Womanhood in America (1975), which won the Bancroft Prize.
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS217 .W64 .R9 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 19th century
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