Separate Spheres
Woman's Place in Nineteenth-Century America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894861 |
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| Authors | Barbara J Todd (corresponding author), Barbara Todd (0000-0001-8306-2730) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-338 |
| Publication date | 1985-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-016-03-07 |
| OpenAlex | W2048037572 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Donna A. Behnke. Religious Issues in Nineteenth Century Feminism. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Publishing, 1982. 299 pp." Barbara M. Brenzel. Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1983. 206 + xi pp. Faye E. Dudden. Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. 344 + viii pp. Janet Wilson James. Changing Ideas about Women in the United States, 1776-1825. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981. 337 + xxix pp. Altina L. Waller. Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton: Sex and Class in Victorian America. Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. 177 + xiii pp. The idea of "separate spheres" has for the past two decades dominated writing about woman's role in the nineteenth century. Since Barbara Welter identified the notion and Kathryn Sklar defined it more precisely,1 historians have devoted much effort to describing the effects of the idea that Victorian women were assigned the responsibility for creating in the home a haven of morality and tranquility
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| Highly cited | No |
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