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All Eyes on Her: An Inquiry Into the Language of Empowerment in the…

- - - - Male anxieties= 1) wanton women; 2) invasion of social spheres
  - - - Women were essentially stripped of agency
  - - - Capitalizing on the status quo, men turned to print and exacerbated the restrictions enforced upon middle-class women
        
        Coverture served as the systematic way to keep female behavior in check, it was conduct books that drove the message home as men exploited literature to tamper with women’s emotions and afford them a false sense of agency.
  - - - Gregory quote content with station
        
        Women embodying self-effacement
  - - - middle class, upward social mobility became possible so long as one was armed with the rules of etiquette
        
        BUT the eighteenth-century woman tied to conformance to the model of femininity prescribed in didactic literature