The Limits of Domesticity Flashcards
The Suffrage Movement- who founded?
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Suffrage movement example
Alice Paul parade in Washington
Alice Paul impact
Helped secure 19th amendment
19th amendment
Gave women right to vote
Temperance movement and womanist movement
Brought masses of women into reform and politics (including conservative)
Phrases from temperance movement
‘Do anything’, ‘Home protection’
Frances Willard WCTU presidency
1879
Womens Holy War 1874
Protested sales of alcohol everywhere it was sold
Very successful, mainly peaceful
When was the Womens Holy War?
1874
Womens Crusade Hillsboro Ohio 1873
Diolectian Lewis lecture on temperance- told how a group of women helped his mother stop the local bartender from serving alcohol
When was Womens Crusade?
1873
Where was Womens Crusade?
Hillsboro Ohio
Willard women’s role
Domestic- ‘home protection’
Points from Willard’s How to Win
Men and women co-equal
WCTU
Temperance
Womanist politics- biology
Points from The Yellow Wallpaper
Domestic space symbolises imprisonment
Medical and emotional neglect of women/ wives
Significance of John (TYW)
Not a villainous character- symbolises patriarchy
Shows how deep rooted?
Symbolisms in TYW
The bed nailed to the floor- static sexuality
The woman in the wallpaper
The wallpaper being a feminine symbol
Kerber, Seperate spheres
Three historians substantially reinforced the centrality of the metaphor of separate spheres- Barbara Welter, Aileen S Kraditor and Gerda Lerner
Which three historians reinforced the centrality of separate spheres?
Barbara Welter, Aileen S Kraditor, Gerda Lerner
Who influenced several historians regarding women’s history?
Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
Welter, Cult of True Womanhood
The values she argued were associated with women were domesticity, piety, purity and submissiveness
Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood
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.
Readings
Willard
Kerber
Cott
Welter
