铭记女性:18世纪女性写信人与父权制

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Conor Howard
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本文考察了在漫长的18世纪,英格兰和新英格兰的精英白人女性是如何参与到男性气质的建构中来的。在她们的通信中,精英女性经常表达她们对理想男人应该是什么样子的想法。在给女性朋友和家庭成员的信中,她们列举了一些男性的例子,她们认为这些男性要么体现了她们的崇高理想,要么是理想的反例。在给儿子和年轻男性亲属的信中,这些写信人经常非常直接地提供他们的意见和指导,告诉他们如何成为好男人和好家长。本文考察的书信作者都没有公然挑战他们所生活的父权社会秩序。相反,这些享有特权的女性倡导重视家庭和基督教道德等价值观,使她们的精英男性亲属成为成功的提供者、户主和社区领袖。在1783年后的新美国,这种情况并不比在1740年代的英国少,这表明精英女性在确保父权社会连续性方面的作用长期存在,即使理想男性的某些方面确实随着时间的推移而改变。
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Remembering the Ladies: Eighteenth-Century Female Letter Writers and Patriarchy
abstract:This article examines how elite, white women in England and New England participated in the construction of masculinity during the long eighteenth century. In their correspondences, elite women frequently expressed their ideas about what an ideal man should be. In letters to their female friends and family members, they offered examples of men whom they thought either embodied their high ideals or who served as ideal counterexamples. In their letters to their sons and younger male relatives, these letter writers were often very direct in offering their opinions and guidance on how to be good men and good patriarchs. None of the letter writers examined in this article overtly challenged the patriarchal social order in which they lived. Rather, these privileged women championed values like attention to the home and Christian morality that enabled their elite, male kin to become successful providers, heads of households, and leaders in their communities. This was no less true in the new United States after 1783 than in England in the 1740s, suggesting a long-lived pattern of elite women's role in ensuring the continuity of patriarchal societies, even if some aspects of the ideal man did change over time.
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