1. The Ideal Of Womanhood In Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Jerome in the fourth century and St. ... This ideal, known at The Cult of True Womanhood, was presented to women of the nineteenth century by women's magazines, annuals, and religious literature (Welter 151). ... Postwar economic changes in the late nineteenth century resulted in women beginning to work outside the home in increasing numbers. ... The social, economic and political changes that shook the South at the end of the nineteenth century greatly influenced the lives of its women. ... As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the southern lady, long condemned to life on a pede...
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