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A 3 page essay that discusses the nineteenth century perception of "true" womanhood as reflected in Wilson's Our Nig, Alcott's Little Women (the 1994 film), and the film What's Cooking. No additional sources cited.
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home to be "breadwinners," which necessarily cast their wives as the "bread-bakers," that is, the idea of women creating a domestic haven for men within the home initiated a cultural
ideal for women that both defined by ideals of purity and domesticity, while restricting them more and more to a narrow role within the context of the home. Almost from
its inception, however, there were female voices of dissent that protested against the artificiality of this paradigm, pointing out that all women did not fit easily into the cultural mold.
For example, Harriet Wilsons early nineteenth century text Our Nig demonstrates the incongruity of this paradigm to the reality of life for women of color even if when
they lived presumably "free" in the industrialized north. Wilson begins her account by telling the reader of her mother, "Mag Smith." Wilson stresses that Mag strayed from the path of
conventionality sexual behavior, not because of low morals, but due to circumstances that were largely beyond her control. She was "Early deprived of parental guardianship," lost and alone, she heeded
what she took to be the call of love, only to be abandoned by her lover. She lives as an outcast until she is befriended by an African man, Jim,
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She was not expelled from companionship with white
people; this last step-- her union with a black--was the climax of repulsion" (Wilson). The protagonist of the Wilsons text is called Frado, Jim and Mags mulatto daughter. This suggests
a work of fiction, but scholars acknowledge that Wilsons work is largely autobiographical. Frado loses her parents, first her father and then her mother. As a free mulatto in the
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