Download or read book The Bonds of Womanhood written by Nancy F. Cott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers. "Elegant and convincing. . . . Better than any other work available, The Bonds of Womanhood describes both the classic attitudes of the nineteenth century toward women and the opposition to the oppression of women in the historical context from which they grew."--Willie Lee Rose, New York Review of Books "A lovely, gentle, scholarly, and valuable book."--Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review