Title: The remembered gate : origins of American feminism : the woman and the city, 1800-1860 /
Authors: Berg, Barbara J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Women United States History; Women United States Social conditions.; Feminism United States History.; Urbanization United States History; Women history; Feminism history; Urbanization history
Abstract: "Chronicle of the beginning of woman's emancipation ... Dr. Berg finds its roots in the complex responses to intricate social change that accompanied the urbanization of America, maintaining that the rise of the industrial city precipitated the subordination of women ... Thus women fell victim to the 'woman-belle ideal'--Cover.
Contents: Towards the woman-belle ideal -- American women in the eighteenth century -- The fading order: cities in collison -- Homeward bound -- The woman-belle ideal -- The butterfly in amber -- For relief of the body, reconstruction of the mind -- Towards feminism -- Association -- The deviant woman -- The deviant women -- In want of the splendid city -- When lions are painters.