the lov that shall prepare th ners and christians phe “real rights 0 e\olutionary ideolo would soon find an ; jn the revolutionary and 1845 women ai new scale, carving out 2 sphere of the home at c ment. In these space: motherhood that trai as domesticity itself missiveness and purity. The surge in the families of merch: ple of middling means and midwest cities and toy class, in the struggle t nized themselves in ne observer Alexis de Toc 1831, expressed amazem tions, and all dispositions not only commercial and:e part, but associa ne Pe rious, futile, general or : diminutive.”= This new public space, howe growing separation of men’s and women’ feok on in defining themselves in relation vere infused with powerful notions about g Giations became arenas in which women and reshaped the definitions of public and private, op" io wor Ideas about Public and Private in the Vi m when aiid aa Slowly and inexorably the growth OF comma a 08 eco ; was separating “work” from home. For middh Bi Os BUS meant that marriage was no longer understood p18 PF aves economic partnership. The increasingly child-cente1 “cig ng a 5 class family—locus of companionship, emotion, and aves on The tion—depended on a male wage. According to the pop yectsre> ria ture of the nineteenth century, women and men occupi aye and spheres of home (private) and work (public). “St. Paul ki ntende an \was best for women when he advised them to be domestic,” s the WHE ing to Mrs. John Sandford. “There is composure at hom counsellor © is something sedative in the duties which home involves, ny conseaue Security not only from the world, but from delusions a although of every Kind.” Maleness and femaleness came to symb ae of oppositions characterizing these spheres, Work, as def Jove (indee! increased © after whic! charged w in the eve melodran ter in Ca Ways sai to die f experie ally fro) roy. es tole: T lead and ; ; : Political and ee, busing ny pane wily circle for tl He i” wrote T. S. : ular image The Chose workd Wall ing individuals ;mpetition und of rel and a safe and s jalures on The Sphere and m ea ha inended, and to which she wthe wife, the mistress of counsellor of that ONE, for any consequence to her,”5 ‘Although marriage repres dangers for women only incre marriage Was Supposed t Jove (indeed—the attraction increased control over their ch after which they would be charged with bearing and ra in the event things went qayed marriage or.”® But many young + experienced a marriage traum; accepted their suitors with n she wrote in her dia ny parents and I felt that 11 ought to love a husband.”” ‘s norms of affection emerg business,