The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez

2017 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-86
Author(s):  
James P. McCartin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Virgin Mary

Making Advice Modern

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Julie Golia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Conduct Books ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Way

From early periodicals to conduct books, advice in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was largely a one-way transmission from advice giver to receiver. It also served conservative ends, reinforcing traditional gender roles to wide audiences, and soothing male anxieties about cultural change. But transformations in media and in American culture at the end of the nineteenth century paved the way for a new and strikingly modern paradigm of advice—one that was interactive, public, flexible in topic and form, and woman-centered. This chapter offers an overview of the rise of the advice column and frames its genesis in the context of the changing newspaper and advertising industries.

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