6: The Intimately Oppressed Flashcards
In preindustrial America, the practical need for women in a frontier society had produced some measure of this
Equality
What controls became necessary as material conditions shifted the roles of women in Colonial America?
Ideological controls
True or False: Women were not expected to be particularly religious
False, women were expected to be very pious
What invention, introduced in New England in 1789, created new demand for women to work in factories?
Industrial spinning machinery
What were the average daily earnings for a woman in 1836?
37.5 cents (11 dollars in 2021)
What happened in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824? (hint: it was a first)
The first known strike of women factory workers.
The “Factory Tracts” released by a Female Labor Reform Association in Lowell compared wage labour to this
Slavery
Women had the central role in this form of education
Primary education
Fill in the blanks: (About women) “. . . these conditions created a common consciousness of their situation and forged bonds of ______ among them”
Solidarity
In 1821, feminist Emma Willard founded this first recognized institution for the education of girls
The Troy Female Seminary
This college “pioneered” in the admission of women
Oberlin College
Which feminist intellectual wrote “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”
Margaret Fuller
Angelina Grimke was the first woman to do this in 1838
Address a committee of the Massachusetts state legislature on antislavery petitions
True or false: National Archives in Washington show that women were not as active as men in the anti-slavery movement
False, there are records of thousands of petitions bearing names of women’s anti-slavery societies
These conventions, with the first started by Elizabeth Lady Stanton and Lucretia Mott (among other), spread all over the country
Women’s Rights Conventions
