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I was interested to read that marriages began to focus more on love and compatibility in the early 19th Century. Mintz& Kellogg do acknowledge the large percentage of families that lived on farms, but their generalizations seem not to apply to this majority. Kelly might be right. I doubt that rural women had much access to women's magazines or novels and experienced different transformations post-Revolution.--Amanda | I was interested to read that marriages began to focus more on love and compatibility in the early 19th Century. Mintz& Kellogg do acknowledge the large percentage of families that lived on farms, but their generalizations seem not to apply to this majority. Kelly might be right. I doubt that rural women had much access to women's magazines or novels and experienced different transformations post-Revolution.--Amanda | ||
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| + | I found Mintz and Kellogg's brief discussion of the development of polygamy during the early 1840s intriguing and unexpected. While the "democratic family" emphasized the establishment of solid moral values and attempted to strengthen the affectionate bonds between family members through a system of mutual support, the Mormon families sought to reestablish a sense of patriarchy and traditional male dominance. The middle class family saw the rise of such practices as "deviant and disorganized," and well as an institution that 'degrades womanhood, motherhood, and family (p. 65.)" In the midst of the rising sense of duty to instill notions of purity into the hearts and minds of their children, the "democratic family" apparently faced issues of conformity and acceptance of diverse notions of family structure and sexuality | ||
| + | -Augusta | ||
