Sublime

A culture or a psychology predicated upon man as human and woman as other cannot accept a woman as artist.

but these women aren't WOMANLY.

there is still, in varying degree, ignorance, with prejudice and unbridled emotion."

Traditionally, the mythology of the self-made man had relied on the exploitation of women’s labor in their roles of wives, mothers, and sisters, as well as on a pejorative understanding of “the feminine.” Often the measure of a man’s success was calculated on the basis of his ability to out-earn his wife’s capacity for spending, a criterion for suc

Thus, Hollis explicitly exhorts women to self-police and censor their negative feelings. Against Beyoncé’s putative bitterness and rudeness—a textbook iteration of the pathologized “angry Black woman”—Hollis establishes the desirable femininity as not angry, not rude, not bitter, and, implicitly, not Black.

"We do not allow our women to work. Women are loved—idolized—honored—kept in the home to care for the children."

While Godey’s Lady’s Book and the “domestic science” texts of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Catherine Beecher created the mythology of woman as queen of the house and competent homemaker, other writings depicted an equally compelling role for men to fill, utterly dependent on the attainment of a private home. Walt Whitman wrote, “A man is not a whole o

So a woman’s recognized humanity may leave much to be desired by way of moral freedom. And her sense of obligation is then likely to be excessive, on the one hand, and lacking, in many others.

First this was merely the hope of bearing better ones, and then they recognized that however the children differed at birth, the real growth lay later—through education.