Homeschooled and Self‐Cultured: The Gendering of Margaret Fuller and Caroline Dall.
This article examines the gendering of the human mind by nineteenth‐century Unitarians and Transcendentalists or, more specifically, the employment of the doctrine of "self‐culture" to encourage girls and young women to cultivate traits that would lead themselves and others to gender their intellect...
| Published in: | Journal of Religious History Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 71 - 91 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=142081669&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 142081669 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00224227 53N jtl: Journal of Religious History issn: 00224227 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2020 vid: 44 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 142081669 10.1111/1467-9809.12635 ppf: 71 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 203KB tig: atl: Homeschooled and Self‐Cultured: The Gendering of Margaret Fuller and Caroline Dall. aug: au: Willsky‐Ciollo, Lydia affil: Fairfield University su: Autodidacticism Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, 1822-1912 Transcendentalists (New England) Femininity sug: subj: Autodidacticism Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Dall, Caroline Wells Healey, 1822-1912 Transcendentalists (New England) Femininity ab: This article examines the gendering of the human mind by nineteenth‐century Unitarians and Transcendentalists or, more specifically, the employment of the doctrine of "self‐culture" to encourage girls and young women to cultivate traits that would lead themselves and others to gender their intellect "masculine," even while many proponents of self‐culture maintained a traditional understanding of woman's role: as wife and mother and the keeper of house and home. Beholden to nineteenth‐century categories of masculinity and femininity, many Unitarian and Transcendentalist men — and women — were ambivalent about the practical results of self‐culture for women. How could the people who promoted self‐culture and self‐reliance as the primary religious duties of the spiritually engaged person show only lukewarm support and occasionally outright opposition for the women who followed such advice? To answer this question, this article examines the early lives and educational experiences of Margaret Fuller and Caroline Dall, in their own words and through primary and secondary sources that highlight self‐culture as a source of both empowerment and enervation. In doing so it tracks how both the process and effects of cultivating the "masculine mind" shaped these women and their respective understandings of what it meant to be whole in their own bodies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Religious History is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Religious History holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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