Gender and Intimacy

The Rise of the 'Separate Spheres' Ideology

a) What is the Separate Spheres ideology?

• Describes the accentuation of gender difference among the m/c which took place in the late 18th and 19th c. stimulated by evangelical revival.
• Public life increasingly seen as exclusively male.
• Domesticity came to be the sphere of the women's moral virtues could and should be developed.
• Ideals originally expressed…