The Limits of Domesticity

Question 1

The Suffrage Movement- who founded?

Answer 1

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 2

Suffrage movement example

Answer 2

Alice Paul parade in Washington

Question 3

Alice Paul impact

Answer 3

Helped secure 19th amendment

Question 4

19th amendment

Answer 4

Gave women right to vote

Question 5

Temperance movement and womanist movement

Answer 5

Brought masses of women into reform and politics (including conservative)

Question 6

Phrases from temperance movement

Answer 6

‘Do anything’, ‘Home protection’

Question 7

Frances Willard WCTU presidency

Answer 7

1879

Question 8

Womens Holy War 1874

Answer 8

Protested sales of alcohol everywhere it was sold
Very successful, mainly peaceful

Question 9

When was the Womens Holy War?

Answer 9

1874

Question 10

Womens Crusade Hillsboro Ohio 1873

Answer 10

Diolectian Lewis lecture on temperance- told how a group of women helped his mother stop the local bartender from serving alcohol

Question 11

When was Womens Crusade?

Answer 11

1873

Question 12

Where was Womens Crusade?

Answer 12

Hillsboro Ohio

Question 13

Willard women’s role

Answer 13

Domestic- ‘home protection’

Question 14

Points from Willard’s How to Win

Answer 14

Men and women co-equal
WCTU
Temperance
Womanist politics- biology

Question 15

Points from The Yellow Wallpaper

Answer 15

Domestic space symbolises imprisonment
Medical and emotional neglect of women/ wives

Question 16

Significance of John (TYW)

Answer 16

Not a villainous character- symbolises patriarchy
Shows how deep rooted?

Question 17

Symbolisms in TYW

Answer 17

The bed nailed to the floor- static sexuality
The woman in the wallpaper
The wallpaper being a feminine symbol

Question 18

Kerber, Seperate spheres

Answer 18

Three historians substantially reinforced the centrality of the metaphor of separate spheres- Barbara Welter, Aileen S Kraditor and Gerda Lerner

Question 19

Which three historians reinforced the centrality of separate spheres?

Answer 19

Barbara Welter, Aileen S Kraditor, Gerda Lerner

Question 20

Who influenced several historians regarding women’s history?

Answer 20

Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)

Question 21

Welter, Cult of True Womanhood

Answer 21

The values she argued were associated with women were domesticity, piety, purity and submissiveness

Question 22

Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood

Answer 22

Proposed that the feminist political movement of the 19th century had grown out of the separation of spheres and had taken shape from that separation.

Question 23

Readings

Answer 23

Willard
Kerber
Cott
Welter