Women"
By "Accomplished Ann Bermingham
1/29/2008 6:27:00 PM
Marketing yourself = marketing culture = commodifying as musical instruments and art supplies The Beaufort sisters replaced "art" with elegant feminine poses The accomplishment is directly tied to this new construction of the domestic space as a space of authetic (and virtuous) subjectivity (184) Instead of seeing somen as women with too much time on their hands to fill the idle hours, it was a way to see women as women who performed through artistic expression Jane Austen disapproved of the Miss Beauforts' accomplishments as a way of getting a man; rather, she said, they should be used as a form of expression of your emotions 190 men were aggressive, enterprising and rational; whereas women were passive, nurturing, and intuitive women and men are different in their emotions and their intellect Man's power = doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender; his intellect for is invention and his energy is for adventure, and for war Woman's power = for rule, and her intellect is for sweet ordering and arrangement Austen felt like "accomplishments" were only barriers to real knowledge Wollstonecraft and More objected to the commodifying of women in the marriage market and the undermining of the home and marriage that an education in accomplishments produced (192) The woman's subjectivity and influence depends on the man's position as either the lover or the husband
Will the man still love the wife the same? Once the lover becomes the husband, the accomplished woman becomes the wife, mother, companion and "prudent doestic manager" Accomplishment domestic irritation? Flower painting = appropriate, delicacy of a woman Development their intellectual interests and aristic expressions Liberation; an opportunity, even an excuse to explore color
1/29/2008 6:27:00 PM
1/29/2008 6:27:00 PM