1. Marriage: Then And Now
... society, they looked for justifications for those roles. They found them in the assumptions that society had come up with for males, females, children, and society in general. According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality ... of the status that they had previously held in the agrarian society. They were no longer essential to the family economy that they had been (Epstein/Easton 89). This was a major loss for wo...
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