Changing Ideals of Womanhood during the 19th century woman movement

Just read the best article and hopefully will stay on the right track as I move forward. Took a lot of notes and copied/pasted.

True Womanhood - the thing it is popular to rail against as being ridiculous and unattainable and I agree.

Real Womanhood - hands and feet, flesh and blood, moral purity, dignity, domesticity

Public Womanhood - taking that moral capital and expanding one's domain

New Womanhood - expanding domain and casting off domesticity and tradition altogether.

... leading to modern feminism. Very helpful article for me.

Now, where to focus. Got some good books checked out. Got to find a place to stake my claims. Wondering if I could incorporate my thesis into diss. Don't want to be distracted by the prospect of being able to do something more easily. Got to keep learning. O Lord, direction? You've given me hope, excitement - I am not yet to the mountaintop.