A Woman’s Power Even in the Worst of Times
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Though absolutely devastating and often hard to swallow, the position of enslaved African American women described by Brenda E. Stevenson in “Slave Marriage and Family Relations” evoked the kinds of power that we had read about earlier (Nancy Cott). Women had little say in determining the path of romance in their lives and would often […]
A Woman’s Power Even in the Worst of Times
Tags: Brenda E. Stevenson, Hegel, Nancy F. Cott, power relations, women
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Morality as Repression; Passionlessness as Liberty
Monday, March 8th, 2010
In Nancy F. Cott’s “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850” she talks about how between 1777 and 1794, a study of nine New England magazines indicates that in nonfiction and fiction stories, regarding illicit sex, men were punished, while women were given sympathy. This is interesting for two reasons: the first being that, […]
Morality as Repression; Passionlessness as Liberty
Tags: morality, Nancy F. Cott, passionlessness, Sylvester Graham, William Alcott, women
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Mila Matveeva | 2 Comments »
