The source that I chose to critique assignment is entitled “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in 19th Century America” and was written by Carol Smith-Rosenberg for the 1975 edition of the Journal of Women in Culture and Society. My critique is not based on what is in this piece, but rather what is missing. Smith-Rosenberg does a magnificent job portraying the intimacies shared between women privately. She uses thousands of written correspondence between women in the 19th Century to interpret the level of intimacy shared between these women and to interpret what was or was not social acceptable during that time. What I feel is missing in this paper is the contrast between how women interacted with their husbands or
