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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
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, Harriet Jacobs’ appalling autobiographical narrative of her experience of slavery, is a story very much interwoven with the “cult of true womanhood.” Jacobs hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, middle-class Northeastern Americans: delicate, white, submissive, pio ....
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....ld of politics, business, individuality, intellect, etc. True Women were submissive to men. Their purpose was simply to provide a warm, happy, comfortable home for their husbands and children. According to these ideals, a True Woman was “dependent and affectionate..., pious, pure, gentle, nurturant, benevolent, and sacrificing” (Woloch, p. 73). Women were being sent to academies, not to further their own advancement, but to promote their learning of the skills necessary to be a good wife and.... |
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