Remembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs

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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Sarah Elizabethen
dc.contributor.committeechairJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCalasanti, Toni M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTracy, Patricia L.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:36:36Zen
dc.date.adate2002-06-12en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:36:36Zen
dc.date.issued2002-05-09en
dc.date.rdate2003-06-12en
dc.date.sdate2002-05-13en
dc.description.abstractBy analyzing the language used in tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirs, this thesis reviews how cultural expectations placed on women during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries impacted the reputation of aged women. Specifically, it demonstrates how the ideology of domesticity contributed to the reputation of aged women as women and how advanced age influenced their exemplary place in society. Ultimately, this thesis argues the concept of gender identity that was influential throughout the life course was magnified in importance during old age.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05132002-210659en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05132002-210659/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32689en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartElderlythesis1.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAgingen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectEarly Americaen
dc.subjectGerontologyen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.titleRemembering Elderly Women in Early America: A survey of how aged women were memorialized in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century tombstone inscriptions, death notices, funeral sermons, and memoirsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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