Throughout most of American History, the socially acceptable role for a woman was that of pious and submissive mother and wife, an ideal which nineteenth century authors called, “True Womanhood.” Men dominated the public, AKA the political sphere, while relegating women to the private, AKA the domestic sphere. However, many American women openly challenged this socially prescribed role, especially during the nineteenth century. Some women vociferously lobbied for equal rights and suffrage, while “misbehaving” adulteresses, unwed mothers, and female prostitutes smashed the stereotype of the virtuous American woman.

Although idealized depictions of womanhood have saturated popular culture throughout U.S. History, Americans also have been drawn to stories of women who had gone astray, as attested to by the plethora of novels and sensationalized newspaper and magazine articles about fallen women, especially those who had succumbed to “white slavery.” During the nineteenth century, Americans and Europeans used the term “white slavery” to refer to the practice of kidnapping women and girls to force them into work as prostitutes in brothels. The white slave hysteria culminated in the passage of the Mann Act in 1910, which prohibited the transport of prostitutes across state lines.

Your answer should be well written and a minimum of 250 words. Thanks! Be specific in your posts; don’t generalize. Cite examples to support your analysis; explain your assertions; and support your opinions with evidence. Fully answer each discussion question.

Questions: Study the lithograph created in ca. 1830 below, which is entitled, “A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart.” What does this image convey about how American society viewed women at the time? Why do you think Americans were preoccupied with promoting chastity and virtue among American women during the nineteenth century? Why did both American men and women voice concern about women who challenged traditional gender roles, from prostitutes and adulteresses to women’s rights advocates? (these are the lithograph names- “A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart” by D. W. Kellogg, lithograph publisher, ca. 1830 & “Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade,” a book published in 1910 by W.A. Coote, et al.) both illistrations are here:

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