Her chastity before marriage is
imperative. Her calling must be the high art of motherhood. She must be
the incarnation of the maternal spirit of womanhood, but her purity must
remain unsullied by any trace of erotic passion.
A voluminous literature which stated the virtues and duties of the
Model Woman blossomed out in the latter part of the eighteenth and first
half of the nineteenth century.[43] The Puritan ideals also embodied
this concept. It was by this attempt to make woman conform to a
standardized ideal that man sought to solve the conflict between his
natural human instincts and desires and the early Christian teaching
concerning the sex life and womanhood.
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1. Frazer, J.G. The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part I.
The Magic Art. 2 vols. Macmillan. London, 1911. Part V. Spirits of the
Corn and of the Wild. 2 vols. London, 1912.
2. Farnell, L.R. Evolution of Religion. 235 pp. Williams and Norgate.
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Chaps. III and IV. Macmillan. London, 1907.
---- Sumner, W.G. Folkways. 692 pp. Ginn & Co. Boston, 1907. Chap. XVI,
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