Women & ReformWomen & Reform

Cult of DomesticityCult of Domesticity

A Woman’s home was her sphere of A Woman’s home was her sphere of influenceinfluence

Catharine BeecherCatharine Beecher

Treatise on Treatise on Domestic Domestic EconomyEconomy

18411841

Temperance

Movement

New use of the Cult of Domesticity?

Effective?

Lydia Finney

Prisons & the Mentally IllPrisons & the Mentally Ill

Dorothea DixDorothea Dix Focus on Focus on

rehabilitationrehabilitation MA & 9 MA & 9

southern statessouthern states Moved mentally Moved mentally

ill out of prisonill out of prison

EducationEducation

Before: mostly private academies or private Before: mostly private academies or private tutortutor

Shift – Education is needed for democracy.Shift – Education is needed for democracy. Perfectibility of ManPerfectibility of Man Changing world needs smarter peopleChanging world needs smarter people

EducationEducation

Emma WillardEmma Willard

1821 – Troy Female 1821 – Troy Female SeminarySeminary

EducationEducation

Prudence CrandallPrudence Crandall

1831 – opened 1831 – opened school in school in Canterbury, CTCanterbury, CT

1833 – Allowed 1833 – Allowed black girlsblack girls

1834 – Forced to 1834 – Forced to closeclose

Horace MannHorace Mann

What do you know?What do you know?

Ohio gave him a statue…..

We gave him Shaw’s !

EducationEducation

Mary LyonMary Lyon

1837 – Mount Holyoke 1837 – Mount Holyoke Female SeminaryFemale Seminary

EducationEducation

Oberlin College – 1837 - OhioOberlin College – 1837 - Ohio

Coeducational – 4 female studentsCoeducational – 4 female students

EducationEducation Sarah GrimkeSarah Grimke

1838 – 1838 – Letters on the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Womenthe Condition of Women

Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Harriet JacobsJacobs

Note the Date Published

Splits in the CauseSplits in the Cause

Beecher vs Grimkes vs TruthBeecher vs Grimkes vs Truth

HealthHealth

1849 1849 Elizabeth BlackwellElizabeth Blackwell NY Infirmary for NY Infirmary for

Women & ChildrenWomen & Children

1850s1850s Catharine Beecher – Catharine Beecher – Study of Women’s Study of Women’s

HealthHealth

Seneca Falls Seneca Falls ConventionConvention

Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony