Question.432 - In the early 19th century an ideology of womanhood emerged that redefined womens roles in American life. This cult of true womanhood divorced womens roles from the public and the political, situating them clearly in the domestic realm, sheltered from the competitive world of the market and politics. While women of the North negotiated the cultural and economic landscape of early industrialization, women in the Southern states were subject to the rules and norms of a region now defined by the practice of race-based chattel slavery.? Use?Through Womens Eyes?and the essays from?Womens America?to answer two of the following questions in your initial post:? How did the ideology of true womanhood shape northern womens lives, even when their economic and social realities didnt match the ideals? How does the answer to this question change when discussing working-class women as opposed to middle class women? How was it different for Black women in comparison to white women?? What does Boyston mean by the pastoralization of housework and what did it mean for women and men?? How did the growth of the market economy and early industrialization shape womens lives and opportunities?? How did the patriarchal system of southern plantation society shape womens lives on the basis of race and sex? How would you compare it to the northern ideas of womanhood and domesticity? In ways did the violence inherent in keeping the system of slavery in place shape womens lives in the south? How did it reflect the power dynamics of of patriarchal southern culture??
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