Author: Amanda Porterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195068211
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This treatise documents the claim that, for Puritan men and women alike, the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. It argues that these images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals and established the standards against which the moral character of real women was measured.