Well Behaved Women Essay | Essay

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Well Behaved Women Essay | Essay

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Well Behaved Women

Summary: "The Revolt of "Mother."" Boundaries are broken within the traditional thinking of the oppressed wife and with a husband who strongly believes in dominance over women. By Mary Freeman Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. "The Revolt of "Mother."" The Norton

Anthology of American Literature. Sixth Ed. Vol.C. Nina Baym.

New York, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. 733-

744.


" Well Behaved Women"

" Well behaved women rarely make history." This is a famous quote said by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Ms. Ulrich is a professor of history at Harvard University and she is well known for many of her publications, one of them being "Good Wives" a book written about women in Northern New England 1650-1750. Her writings offer an individualized picture of an important part of colonial society in all aspects, a society in which the boundaries of men and women sometimes were blurred within the individual household. I believe we can find a true correlation between these theories and in the story written by Mary Freeman, "The Revolt of "Mother."" Boundaries are broken within the traditional thinking of the oppressed wife and with a husband who strongly believes in dominance over women.

In "The Revolt of"Mother"", Sarah Penn is the main character portrayed as the loyal...

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