| Title: | The Veil of True Womanhood: The Cult of True Womanhood and its Effect on Intimacy in Nineteenth Century America |
| Author: | Krause, Amanda |
| Abstract: | A paper on the cult of True Womanhood, a nineteenth-century social construction that defined a woman’s life according to four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity, and how it served to suppress intimacy in womens lives. |
| Description: | 12-page paper that was awarded one of two 2010 Undergraduate Research Awards by the American University Library. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1961/8682 |
| Date: | 2010-08-17 |
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