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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