A history of American women challenging domesticity by touring Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identifi

"Male and female symbolic of yin and yang -- two parts of a whole. The whole, of combined mind/emotions, may be required to truly grasp the origin and outcome o

The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women's proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left hom

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of