The private Spheres of women’s lives By Jessie Mizic UWT MAIS Graduate School May 2015

Private spheres of women Public Spheres of men Private spheres of women The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as the will of God, inhabit the public sphere – the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law. Women's "proper sphere", according to the ideology, is the private realm of domestic life, child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education. The separate spheres ideology presumes that women and men are inherently different and that distinctive gender roles are "natural".

Private spheres of women Public Spheres of men Private spheres of women The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as the will of God, inhabit the public sphere – the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law. Women's "proper sphere", according to the ideology, is the private realm of domestic life, child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education. The separate spheres ideology presumes that women and men are inherently different and that distinctive gender roles are "natural".

Private spheres of women Public Spheres of men Private spheres of women The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as the will of God, inhabit the public sphere – the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law. Women's "proper sphere", according to the ideology, is the private realm of domestic life, child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education. The separate spheres ideology presumes that women and men are inherently different and that distinctive gender roles are "natural".

Private spheres of women Public Spheres of men Private spheres of women The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as the will of God, inhabit the public sphere – the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law. Women's "proper sphere", according to the ideology, is the private realm of domestic life, child-rearing, housekeeping, and religious education. The separate spheres ideology presumes that women and men are inherently different and that distinctive gender roles are "natural".

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"Woman has no call to the ballot-box, but she has a sphere of her own, of amazing responsibility and importance. She is the divinely appointed guardian of the home...She should more fully realize that her position as wife and mother, and angel of the home, is the holiest, most responsible, and queen like assigned to mortals; and dismiss all ambition for anything higher, as there is nothing else here so high for mortals." — Rev. John Milton Williams, Woman Suffrage, Bibliotheca Sacra (1893)

"Woman has no call to the ballot-box, but she has a sphere of her own, of amazing responsibility and importance. She is the divinely appointed guardian of the home...She should more fully realize that her position as wife and mother, and angel of the home, is the holiest, most responsible, and queen like assigned to mortals; and dismiss all ambition for anything higher, as there is nothing else here so high for mortals." — Rev. John Milton Williams, Woman Suffrage, Bibliotheca Sacra (1893)

"Woman has no call to the ballot-box, but she has a sphere of her own, of amazing responsibility and importance. She is the divinely appointed guardian of the home...She should more fully realize that her position as wife and mother, and angel of the home, is the holiest, most responsible, and queen like assigned to mortals; and dismiss all ambition for anything higher, as there is nothing else here so high for mortals." — Rev. John Milton Williams, Woman Suffrage, Bibliotheca Sacra (1893)

"Woman has no call to the ballot-box, but she has a sphere of her own, of amazing responsibility and importance. She is the divinely appointed guardian of the home...She should more fully realize that her position as wife and mother, and angel of the home, is the holiest, most responsible, and queen like assigned to mortals; and dismiss all ambition for anything higher, as there is nothing else here so high for mortals." — Rev. John Milton Williams, Woman Suffrage, Bibliotheca Sacra (1893)

The Cult of True Womanhood Feminist and historian Barbara Welter created the term Cult of True Womanhood to define the ideology that reached it’s height of popularity in America during the 1850s. It celebrated women spheres as True women were supposed to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic. Domesticity, in particular, was regarded as a laudable virtue as the home was considered a woman's proper sphere The Cult of True Womanhood

The Cult of True Womanhood Feminist and historian Barbara Welter created the term Cult of True Womanhood to define the ideology that reached it’s height of popularity in America during the 1850s. It celebrated women spheres as True women were supposed to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic. Domesticity, in particular, was regarded as a laudable virtue as the home was considered a woman's proper sphere The Cult of True Womanhood

The Cult of True Womanhood Feminist and historian Barbara Welter created the term Cult of True Womanhood to define the ideology that reached it’s height of popularity in America during the 1850s. It celebrated women spheres as True women were supposed to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic. Domesticity, in particular, was regarded as a laudable virtue as the home was considered a woman's proper sphere The Cult of True Womanhood

The Cult of True Womanhood Feminist and historian Barbara Welter created the term Cult of True Womanhood to define the ideology that reached it’s height of popularity in America during the 1850s. It celebrated women spheres as True women were supposed to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic. Domesticity, in particular, was regarded as a laudable virtue as the home was considered a woman's proper sphere The Cult of True Womanhood

Men were protectors of women and children through the realm of their public sphere. Women were creators of hearth and home.

My research is based on critiquing the ideology of the cult of true womanhood and the spheres of domescity for women through a deep close reading of the novel the awakening by kate chopin.

Thank you! Jessie Mizic MAIS Graduate School mizicj@uw.edu About you: Jessie Mizic MAIS Graduate School mizicj@uw.edu June 2013 BA UWT EGL June 2015 MAIS Degree Thank you!