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  2. Culture of Domesticity - Wikipedia

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    Since the idea was first advanced by Barbara Welter in 1966, many historians have argued that the subject is far more complex and nuanced than terms such as "Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood" suggest, and that the roles played by and expected of women within the middle-class, 19th-century context were quite varied and often contradictory.

  3. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the early years of settlement in the late 19th century, farm women played an integral role in assuring family survival by working outdoors. After a generation or so, women increasingly left the fields, thus redefining their roles within the family. New conveniences such as sewing and washing machines encouraged women to turn to domestic ...

  4. Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Wikipedia

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    Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it was later expanded and republished in book form in 1845.

  5. Women in the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement, 1831–51 (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1995). Gorham, Deborah. The Victorian girl and the feminine ideal (Routledge, 2012). Hawkins, Sue. Nursing and women's labour in the nineteenth century: the quest for independence (Routledge, 2010). Kent, Christopher.

  6. New Woman - Wikipedia

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    Women artists became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". [26] In the late 19th century, Charles Dana Gibson depicted the "New Woman" in his piece, The Reason Dinner was Late, which shows a woman painting a policeman. [27] [28]

  7. Women's club movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Women's clubs began to turn over their work to city entities and became less influential. [85] In addition, more women began to enter the workforce during the 1960s and had less spare time to devote to club work. [86] Many women today are working long hours or spending time with their children's extracurricular activities. [87]

  8. The woman question - Wikipedia

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    A resurgence in the debate over the nature and role of women is illustrated by the Romantic movement's exploration in fiction and drama (and opera) of the nature of "man", of human beings as individuals and as members of society. Conflict between women's prescribed roles, their own values, and their perceptions of self are prominent in such ...

  9. Women's history - Wikipedia

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    [55] [59] Judith E. Tucker, in Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History, emphasizes the ways in which changes in the geopolitical and economic landscapes of the 19th century influenced women's lives and roles in Middle Eastern society. [61]