"A Mother's Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France chronicles the emergence of an idealized mother figure whose reforming zeal sought to make French society more just. Lesley H. Walker contends that this attempt during the eighteenth century to "rewrite" social relations in terms of greater social equality represents an important but overlooked strand of Enlightenment thought. During this period, popular domestic novels, the ever-raging debates about women's social roles, and highly sought-after genre paintings produced a remarkable image of motherhood. Through a focus on feminine virtue, Walker studies female writers and artists to argue that these women theorize the domestic sphere as a site of significant social and ethical productivity."
"More than a fill-in-the-blank Bible study, Raising Maidens of Virtue is an engaging tool for mothers to use in training daughters who are approaching womanhood to think biblically. Through stories, allegories, illustrations, and memory-making projects, Raising Maidens of Virtue covers topics such as guarding the tongue, idleness, sibling relationships, honoring parents, contentment, modesty, purity, cleanliness, and feminine biblical beauty."
"In The Good Wife's Guide New York Times best-selling author Darlene Schacht encourages women to joyfully serve their families. In doing so she offers reasons for achieving a well-managed home backed by scripture and gleaned from experience. As well she provides readers with detailed cleaning and organizing schedules for practical application.
The Good Wife's Guide encourages women to make faith and family their first priorities from a place of sacrificial love. It reminds women that they were created with a specific purpose in mind, which is that of being a help meet. In supporting our husbands and living in unity we reflect God's blueprint for marriage.
If you like books on organization and housekeeping, this book is for you!"
The Good Wife's Guide encourages women to make faith and family their first priorities from a place of sacrificial love. It reminds women that they were created with a specific purpose in mind, which is that of being a help meet. In supporting our husbands and living in unity we reflect God's blueprint for marriage.
If you like books on organization and housekeeping, this book is for you!"
In epic times, there was no such thing as "feminine virtue." It was just a common belief that all women should behave in this manner and this was what a good wife/mother represented. It wasn't until the 1700's that critics began to identify what this archetype exactly meant then and to the current society.
Feminine virtue is not always hard to find in epics of the past. The good wife archetype is always in place in order to contrast the seductress or siren archetypes. There essentially must be a balance between the two. The two female wives in The Odyssey and The Mahabharata have become the epitome of good wives. The feminine virtue they posses has assisted them in being considered honorable and courageous. Their stories are different in regards to their husbands and how they treat them, but their actions and characteristics are essentially the same. The theme of feminine virtue in both epics is clearly visible through these two wives and without them, their husbands would not be the heroes they became by the end of the epic.
Feminine virtue is not always hard to find in epics of the past. The good wife archetype is always in place in order to contrast the seductress or siren archetypes. There essentially must be a balance between the two. The two female wives in The Odyssey and The Mahabharata have become the epitome of good wives. The feminine virtue they posses has assisted them in being considered honorable and courageous. Their stories are different in regards to their husbands and how they treat them, but their actions and characteristics are essentially the same. The theme of feminine virtue in both epics is clearly visible through these two wives and without them, their husbands would not be the heroes they became by the end of the epic.