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  2. Culture of Domesticity - Wikipedia

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    The Culture of Domesticity (often shortened to Cult of Domesticity [1]) or Cult of True Womanhood is a term used by historians to describe what they consider to have been a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th century in the United States. [2]

  3. 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.

  4. Society and culture of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    Walter E. Houghton argues, "Perhaps the most important development in 19th-century intellectual history was the extension of scientific assumptions and methods from the physical world to the whole life of man." [19] During the mid-nineteenth century, there were two distinct religious mentalities among British academics.

  5. 19th century in fashion - Wikipedia

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    The technology, art, politics, and culture of the 19th century were strongly reflected in the styles and silhouettes of the era's clothing. For women, fashion was an extravagant and extroverted display of the female silhouette with corset pinched waistlines, bustling full-skirts that flowed in and out of trend and decoratively embellished gowns ...

  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. #Tradwife Influencers Get 19th Century History Wrong - AOL

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    Despite their embrace of traditional lives as wives and mothers then, the women of Lily Dale lived very different existences than the image that tradwife influencers paint of 19th century life for ...

  8. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many women in the 19th century were involved in reform movements, particularly abolitionism. [86] In 1831, Maria W. Stewart (who was African-American) began to write essays and make speeches against slavery, promoting educational and economic self-sufficiency for African Americans. The first woman of any color to speak on political issues in ...

  9. 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.