The Murder of Helen Jewett

The Murder of Helen Jewett, written by Patricia Cline Cohen, centers around a misfire named Dorcas Doyan. Her mother died when she was a child, her receive who was an alcoholic died later on afterwards that. Orphaned at an early age she was follow by a known judge named chief justness Nathan Weston. She was a servant for the family scarce in return got provided a ingenuous home and good education. She was said to have highly-developed sexual assertiveness and was rumored to be in an affair with a banker that led to her being whipped from her whiteness and purity. When she was 18 years of age, Dorcas locomote out and began working as a prostitute in Portland, Maine, then her trade took her to capital of Massachusetts and finally New York where she was murdered, (Cohen 37). Upon the denudation of her body, investigators focused on her farseeing time client Richard P Robinson who went as Frank Rivers when see prostitutes such as Helen Jewett. \n round the 19th century, wo c ustody had a lost(p) of restraints on what they could and could not do, or what was seen acceptable and what was not. There were rattling limited opportunities given to men compared to women. Women were expected to be religious and take part in religious ceremonies. This was said to block them from conducting any inappropriate acts and realize pleasure to their minds. Piety was also recommended for men but not as strongly as for women (Cohen 79). This begins off the assertion of how a part during this time has situation and authority. Throughout Jewetts life, a mens room word counted more and was highly valued compare to a womans. A woman would be looked down upon when conducting the same dreadful behavior that a man would have. Male privilege shape Jewetts life when she was living and it hushed shaped her life after she died. There are triplet scenes where male privilege is acknowledge in this book. One is how females who commit adultery were treated compared to how m ales who attached adultery were treated. Second is, the poor op...