1. The Wife's Resentment by Delarivier Manley
... the lack of options and loss of power women of the 18th century faced in a unforgivingly patriarchal society that punished them for straying from the societal dictates of modest and chaste femininity. Violenta's fall from a reputed paragon of feminine virtue and subsequent ... for the putative security of marriage. Though sexual chastity may have been considered an entity "whose price was inestimable" it certainly was not above being traded like a material commodity - so long as it came with the proper packaging. Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure ... ...
- Word Count: 1986
- Approx Pages: 8
- Grade Level: Graduate