Аннотация:Historian Nancy Cott captured the paradox of women's status in early-nineteenth-century America by identifying two seemingly contradictory visions of women's relation to society: the ideology of domesticity, which gave women a sex-specific role to play, primarily in the home; and feminism, which attempted to remove sex-specific limits women's opportunities and capacities. Cott argues that historically the emergence of feminism depended on the slightly earlier subtle changes in women's view of the domestic role.' What was essential about that new domestic experience was the sex-consciousness it fostered, a sexconsciousness most forcefully depicted by Carroll SmithRosenberg. The female world of love and ritual that she discovered in the private interstices of middle-class life revealed the domestic circle as a seedbed not only of sex-conciousness, but also of sex solidarity.2 Suddenly, women's separation from productive labor and relegation to the private sphere appeared less restrictive and isolating; rather, it provided the necessary resources for women's reemergence as public arbiters of moral and social order.
Ключевые слова:Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment, American Constitutional Law and Politics, Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
