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Southern New Hampshire UniversityAnnotated BibliographyTransforming Colonists into Goddesses and Sultans:Power and Powerlessness: Death, Sexuality, And the Demonic in Nineteenth-Century AmericanSculpture 03:00:41 GMT -05:00Annotated BibliographyKasson, Joy S. “Power and Powerlessness: Death, Sexuality and the Demonic in Nineteenth- Century American Sculpture.” Women’s Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, Dec. 1988, p. 343. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1080/00497878.1988.9978738.Kasson, a Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specializing in American literature, American cultural history, American art, and American popular culture, explores the contradictions inherent in the dominant cultural ideals of Victorian America concerning women's roles. She dives into the uncertainties surrounding the prescriptive definitions of "woman's proper place," which was commonplace in society, including literature, medicine, law, politics, religion, and the arts. Kasson argues that while the overall view emphasized women's biological destiny as child-bearers and nurturers confined to domestic life, the reality was far more complex. She examines how the idea of womanhood was challenged and devalued through various forms of cultural expression. By analyzing artistic representations and literary works, Kasson uncovers the hidden anxieties and desires contradicting the imageof passive and powerless women. The article discusses the differences in power between men and women in Victorian American