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The expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their husbands.

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About Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015.