American Studies 2200E Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 7: New England Town, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cardinal Virtues

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 2200E
• Professor: Anna Zuschlag

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Barbara welter, (cid:862)the cult of true wo(cid:373)a(cid:374)hood: (cid:1005)8(cid:1006)(cid:1004) 6(cid:1004),(cid:863) Young, white, christian, middle class, northern women. Neglects agency, the lives of black woman, working women. True womanhood could only be met by very few. Four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity. Religio(cid:374)/piety the (cid:272)o(cid:396)e of (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:448)i(cid:396)tue (cid:894)the sou(cid:396)(cid:272)e of he(cid:396) st(cid:396)e(cid:374)gth(cid:895) Women would bring men back to christ. More ready than man to accept the proffered grace of the gospel. Religion valued because it did not take women away from the home. Church work could not make her less domestic or submissive. Women warned not to let their literary or intellectual pursuits take them away from god. Purity as essential as piety to a young woman (without purity she was not a woman) All true woman urged to maintain their virtue. Pu(cid:396)ity (cid:449)as the sou(cid:396)(cid:272)e of a (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s po(cid:449)e(cid:396), (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ised. Women must preserve her virtue until marriage and marriage was necessary for her happiness.