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Linkon, Sherry Lee. "Rose Terry Cooke and The Woman Question: A Study in Fiction and Ideology," University of Minnesota, May 1990.
Using the fiction and essays of Rose Terry Cooke (182701892), this case study examines women’s opposition to the women’s rights movement during the second half of the nineteenth century. Cooke’s writings illustrate the central contradiction of “Anti” ideology. They blamed male values, especially individualism and commercialism, for social problems and believed that women could repair these problems through domesticity, piety-in-action, motherly caring, and selflessness. Yet Cooke’s stories also show how good womanhood could harm women and that women’s influence often failed because of their own weaknesses. This contradiction helps explain the ultimate failure of the “Antis’” ideas.
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