The Convent, the Brothel, and the Protestant Woman's Sphere

Signs ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Fessenden
Keyword(s):  
Woman's Sphere

scholarly journals The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835

1978 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1101
Author(s):  
Lois W. Banner ◽  
Nancy F. Cott
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Woman's Sphere

Mathematics Applied to Domestic Arts

1917 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-164
Author(s):  
Katharine F. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Textbooks ◽  
Domestic Arts ◽  
Woman's Sphere ◽  
Educational Conditions

A diligent search in mathematics textbooks that offer even the slightest promise of the application of mathematics to domestic arts, reveals how little attempt has been made to discover the part that mathematics plays in what has come to be considered peculiarly “woman’s sphere.” This is not because the domestic arts do not offer an opportunity for the application of mathematics, but because of general social and educational conditions that have affected the kind of training given to girls.

Counting the Cost of Faith. America's Early Female Missionaries

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Foreign Mission ◽  
Woman's Sphere ◽  
Theological Challenge ◽  
The Cost

America's first unmarried female missionaries, women who went out to Asia and Africa in the early to middle nineteenth century, chose lives as intense and demanding as any man's. They chose the foreign mission vocation despite the belief, strong in their era, that women should accept the constraints and comforts of their “proper sphere,” the home. To make their decision, these women struggled with two sets of ideas which coexisted in tension: equality of all persons before God, and the ideology of “woman's sphere.” As persons of faith they could respond to God's commands in the same way as men without theological challenge, because equality of all persons before God was a major strand in their Christian tradition. As nineteenth-century women, however, they were asked to accept lowered status and protective restrictions, in keeping with woman's sphere ideology. These women chose to become missionaries, compromising on second-class status and protective restrictions. In their view, the missionary vocation was worth the cost of compromise.

The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere

1989 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Rosalind Rosenberg ◽  
Jeanne Boydston ◽  
Mary Kelley ◽  
Anne Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Woman's Sphere

“A Blessing to Our Declining Years:” Feminine Response to Filial Duty in the New Republic

1985 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Terri Premo
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
Filial Responsibility ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
New Republic ◽  
Woman's Sphere

This article examines the ties that bound adult daughters to their aged parents in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Despite the increasingly domestic nature of woman's sphere during this period, women frequently acknowledged ambivalence towards some aspects of filial responsibility. Adult daughters considered such duty as both appropriate and deserved, yet sometimes found the burdens of parental care overwhelming. Aged mothers, while believing that daughters were well-suited to the task, often regretted the demands placed upon younger women. Resulting anxiety could manifest itself in both generations. Clearly, the contemporary dilemma involving the peculiarly feminine nature of filial duty has long roots. Now, as then, the growing bonds between different generations of women offer both explanation and hope for future resolution to the problems accompanying filial duty.

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