How did marriage and women’s roles change from Colonial period to the Republican Period?

Added to Relationships on July 27, 2010  |   2 Comments 

Reader question: How did marriage and women’s roles change from the Colonial period to the Republican Period, into the 19th c. Industrial Period. How did women use the Cult of Domesticity and the Cult of True Woman to carve a niche for themselves? Are these ideas repressive or freeing? In what ways? What ways did [...]