The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism : The Woman and the City, 1800-1860 (The Urban life in America series)

✍ Scribed by Barbara J. Berg

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: The Urban life in America series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Maintains that the historical roots of modern feminism are found in the complex responses to the social change that accompanied the urbanization and industrialization of America in the early nineteenth century

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
TOWARDS THE WOMAN-BELLE IDEAL
American Women in the Eighteenth Centu1y
The Fading Order:
Cities in Collision
Homeward Bound
The Woman-Belle Ideal
The Butterfly in Amber
For Relief of the Body, Reconstruction of the Mind
TOWARD FEMINISM
Association
The Deviant Woman
The Deviant Women
In Want of the Splendid City
When Lions Are Painters
Summary
Notes