ENG 632 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Upper Class, Bicycling And Feminism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Career for women was marriage - preparation for said career included daily grooming and education in music, dancing, sewing and modern languages. Women were to have a feminine flair, to be weak, helpless and ignorant of intellectual opinion, so as not to be too smart and therefore unmarriageable (from http://www. fashion-era. com/a_womans_place. htm) Women were to be fragile and delicate, with opinions that did not surpass selecting a menu for dinnertime or teaching her young ones proper values. Women who had too many opinions, or asked too many questions were considered unladylike, and therefore not fit to marry. Women were not considered to have any sort of sexual appetite, marriage was desired in order to become mothers, rather than a desire for companionship or sex. Taught moral values to children and kept a comfortable home for their husbands. Divorce was made legal in 1857 but was very rare. A divorced woman was destroyed (taboo), and could never remarry.

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