Milton's Daughters: The Education of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
1986; Feminist Studies; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3177969
ISSN2153-3873
Autores Tópico(s)Literature: history, themes, analysis
ResumoThe television shows of my childhood presented many examples of benevolent patriarchs: from Robert Young to Fred MacMurray, these men counseled befuddled women and children alike and rarely erred in the advice they gave. We remember their trademarks-cardigan sweaters, pipes, libraries discreetly lined with titleless books. Not all of us had fathers like these, but in their symbolic capacity these men served as Father to us all, for, in the words of Dorothy Van Ghent: under our anciently inherited patriarchal organization of the family.. .our 'fathers' are not only individual fathers but all of those who have come before ussociety as it has determined our conditions of existence, and the problems we have to confront.' These television fathers of the late 1950s and 1960s were but distant reincarnations of earlier
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