A Woman's Place: Defiance and Obedience—Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown
| Autor: | Brian Gabrial |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journalism. 25:7-29 |
| ISSN: | 2326-2486 0882-1127 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08821127.2008.10678090 |
| Popis: | John Brown was not the only individual making headlines in the late fall of 1859. Several women, notably the abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, captured the attention of newspaper editors. Another woman, Christine Foulke, earned a Boston editor's praise as the “Heroine of Harper' s Ferry.” Undertaking great personal risk, a third woman, Rebecca Spring, traveled from New Jersey to Charlestown to visit Brown twice. Two others, Mary Day Brown and Mahala Doyle, had more tragic connections to Brown. As this research uncovers stories about these women, it determines, too, whether a discourse called “the cult f true womanhood” emerges in the news coverage. Such a discourse, prevalent in the nineteenth century, stresses the four “cardinal” virtues of piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity and emphasizes a woman's proper place in the home (or private sphere) while celebrating her position as homemaker and mother. Further, the article reveals editorial reaction when these women either violated or supp... |
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