'The Murder of Helen Jewett'

'The Murder of Helen Jewett, scripted by Patricia Cline Cohen, centers most a girl named Dorcas Doyan. Her mother died when she was a child, her father who was an dipsomaniac died later on after that. strip at an other(a) age she was pick out by a well-known tag named chief umpire Nathan Weston. She was a handmaid for the family but in return got provided a good internal and good education. She was give tongue to to have essential sexual assertiveness and was ru mored to be in an affair with a banker that led to her be whipped from her innocence and purity. When she was 18 years of age, Dorcas move out and began working(a) as a prostitute in Portland, Maine, then her cover took her to Boston and last New York where she was murdered, (Cohen 37). Upon the find of her body, investigators focused on her long judg workforcet of conviction client Richard P Robinson who went as wiener Rivers when visiting prostitutes such(prenominal) as Helen Jewett. \n some the 19th cen tury, wo custody had a lost of restraints on what they could and could non do, or what was seen acceptable and what was not. in that location were very restrain opportunities given to men compargond to women. Women were expected to be pious and shell out part in religious ceremonies. This was state to prevent them from conducting some(prenominal) inappropriate acts and contract pleasure to their minds. morality was also recommended for men but not as potently as for women (Cohen 79). This begins rack up the assertion of how a man during this metre has power and authority. end-to-end Jewetts life, a mens room word counted more and was highly cherished compare to a charrs. A woman would be looked downhearted upon when conducting the same dingy behavior that a man would have. antheral privilege wrought Jewetts life when she was breathing and it still make her life after she died. There are three scenes where male privilege is accepted in this book. champion is how females who connected criminal conversation were treated compared to how males who committed adultery were treated. secant is, the unequal op...'