nd women, moral self and problematic Other" (17). During this era, illustrations were based on the idea of woman as Other, problematic and in need of regulation, but the view point in Cornelia was different. "One saw the transforming possibilities of moral behavior, whereas the others sought to understand and make the most of nature's laws" (17). Further more, classical gender ideology in Augustan Rome and during the eighteenth century implied that educated, powerful, and independent women could comprehend. Instead of asking women to be "blissful creatures", enabled them to purify their own recent history of its flaws and false values. Thus, imposing women to become heroic and moral women. "Classicizing imagery of gender is functionalit describes the socialization of women to moral conductexplains the relations between Self and Other, between insider and outsider, between ruler and ruled" (18). Gender is an icon and model for the world of "idealized class and international relations". (18) Women become equivalent to man, in the sense of chaotic ness and "irregular essence" is controlled by her incorporation into the civilized and rational world. Classicism is the tool of "wide-raging ideology", a mechanism and metaphor for societal hegemony. ...
