The Awakening
Time period
Setting
Culture & Class
Sexual norms
turn of the century, late 1800s
The Victorians
New Orleans
Creole society
The Creole woman
Upper-class creole society
Grand Isle, vacation area, Gulf of Mexico
The Creole Man
Maintain appearances
Cult of domesticity; angel of the household
Hostess, entertain visitors
Fallen woman
Breadwinner, circulates in public
Catholic church
Catholic church against divorce
repression, repressed sexuality
not enjoying sex
sex for reproduction
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morality around dress and skin
woman's value= chastity and faithfulness to husband and children
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