... home, charged with controlling the lustful natures of male family members. In general, sexual passion was seen as a potentially destabilizing force that needed to be controlled. In other words, a new ideology of sexual restraint became prevalent among middle-class Americans. Moreover, in the nineteenth century America, physicians began to take the place of both church and state as the authoritative ... growing number of working-class women sought jobs in factories, stores, and offices. As it turns out, this movement into the urban work force afforded women some economic stability and a ...

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