“...pedagogical literature form women mapped out a field of knowledge that would produce a specifically female form of subjectivity. To gender this field, things within the field itself had to be gendered. Masculine objects were understood in terms of their relative economic and political qualities, while feminine objects were recognized by their relative emotional qualities. At the sites of the household, family life, and all that was hallowed as female, this gendering field of information contested a dominant political order which depended, among other things, on representing women as economic and political objects.” (469)

(Armstrong, Nancy. “From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)