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Sweetness And Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite In The Victorian Age, Michael Krondl
Sweetness And Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite In The Victorian Age, Michael Krondl
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Since at least the nineteenth century sweetness and a preference for sweet foods has been linked to femininity. Western, middle-class women learned and reproduced normative gendered dietary behavior due to both private and public pressure to control their appetites and those of their children. In performing their gendered roles, they came to embody them through everyday rituals such as teatime. Sugary foods and drinks served as necessary props in these performances. Theorists, most prominently Jean-Jacques Rousseau, began to propose a linkage of sweet foods with femininity in the seventeen hundreds. In the following century, the medical profession explained women’s tastes …
Where Are You Mama?: The Role Of Motherhood In The Victorian Novel, Sophia Mary Tighe
Where Are You Mama?: The Role Of Motherhood In The Victorian Novel, Sophia Mary Tighe
Senior Projects Fall 2022
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