youth reacted to the status quo by changing their conventional ways. To start with‚ there was a new “baby boom” generation. Women throughout decided to marry more often and give birth to more children. To celebrate the female anatomy‚ the “cult of domesticity” became a custom. The newborns required certain products that created demand. Since there was more money available in the family and a greater need for products‚ consumption rapidly increased. These youths grew to be teenagers where they see
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Ashlynn Kufleitner AP Literature and Composition 21 May‚ 2014 Period 1 Undesirable: The Tragedy of Blanche Dubois “The tragedy of these women is the tragedy of the civilization which bore them‚ nourished them‚ and cast them out.” This quote by Robert Emmet Jones‚ an associate professor specializing in sociology‚ parallels with A Streetcar Named Desire‚ in which the decline of the southern aristocracy left women‚ who were little more than decorative beauties‚ at the mercy of the real world. Knowing
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Good Luck everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrG0AwUJQDQ 1. AdamsOnís Treaty (1819) (Transcontinental Treaty) The treaty between the United States and Spain that gave Florida to the United States and set out a boundary between the United States and New Spain (now Mexico) that settle boundary disputes. Treaty was negotiated by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and Don Luis de Onís. John Quincy Adams was big into gaining territory. The treaty was significant because it gave Florida to the United States and
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money. As a result women did not have to make as many products at home. Home‚ previously a center of economic production was now transformed into a place of refuge after a long hard day at work. Much like the idea of republican motherhood‚ the cult of domesticity expressed the responsibilities of a wife and mother. It presented this concept of how the moral power and authoritative decisions made by these women shaped the lives of their families (Doc G). While white middle class women this increased domestic
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farms that kept slaves in the fields all day. Northern women saw the cruelty of slavery and wanted to stop the practice of breaking up families and the sexual molestation of female slaves.9 While the north was still deeply influenced by the cult of domesticity‚ women were still signing petitions and attending or speaking at public meetings. Additionally‚ the money raised by women was relied on by the abolitionist.10 In addition to white women‚ middle-class black women were heavily involved in antislavery
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feel sexual pleasure‚ so women were free of sin. At early age‚ girls were taught to play the piano and anything that was related about the art of home‚ like cooking or sewing. These traditions were part of what the Victorian society called the Cult of Domesticity. Every woman had the responsibility of passing these norms to her daughters; therefore‚ these girls could be the perfect wives who would save their husbands from temptation‚ so their families could fit in the Gilded Age society which perpetuate
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education. Women were expected to remain submissive to their fathers and husbands. Especially their professional choices were limited. Women were upper-class and middle inhabit their life by improving four different things how they are piety‚ purity‚ domesticity‚
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States–temperance clubs‚ religious movements and moral-reform societies‚ anti-slavery organizations–and in many of these‚ women played a prominent role. Meanwhile‚ many American women were beginning to chafe against what historians have called the “Cult of True Womanhood”: that is‚ the idea that the only “true” woman was a pious‚ submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family. Put together‚ all of these
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ideologies she expresses through her actions. Jane Eyre marries for love rather than money or social status and she financially provides for herself; both of which are frowned upon by her society that values money‚ social standing‚ and the cult of domesticity (a doctrine that urged women to stay at home and fulfill their familial and household duties instead of enter the workforce or be single). Jane Eyre’s reasoning behind her marriage is revealed when she realizes that Rochester “is not of their
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Cited: Barbara Welter‚ "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860‚". American Quarterly 18‚ no. 2 (1966): 156. http://www.jstor.org/ (accessed June 20‚ 2014) Wadjda. Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour. Sony Pictures Classics‚ 2013. DVD.
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