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Mar 13, 2018 · During the same decades, the role of women in America changed. These two significant events in the social and cultural history of the United States, evangelical Protestantism and the transformation in the ways women thought and lived, were closely linked.
Throughout the 19th century, American women experienced vast changes regarding possibilities for childbirth and for enhancing or restricting fertility control. At the beginning of the century, issues involving reproduction were discussed primarily in domestic, private settings among women’s networks that included family members, neighbors, or ...
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Women of African descent who were enslaved usually had no public life. They were considered property and could be sold and raped with impunity by those who, under the law, owned them. Few participated in public life, though some came to public view. Many were not even recorded with a name in the records of the enslavers. A few participated in the p...
One area of public life assumed by women was the role of a writer. Sometimes (as with the Bronte sisters in England), they would write under male pseudonyms and other times under ambiguous pseudonyms. However, Margaret Fuller not only wrote under her own name, but she also published a book titled "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" before her untimel...
In order to fulfill the aims of Republican Motherhood, some women gained access to higher educationso—at first—they could be better teachers of their sons, as future public citizens, and of their daughters, as future educators of another generation. These women were not only teachers but founders of schools. Catherine Beecher and Mary Lyon are amon...
Lucretia Mott, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Livermore, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others took part in the North American 19th-century Black activist movement. Their experiences of being put in second place and sometimes denied the right to speak publicly or limited to speaking to other women also helped lead this group to...
Betsy Rossmay not have made the first United States flag, as legend credits her, but she was a professional flagmaker at the end of the 18th century. Through three marriages, she continued her work as a seamstress and businesswoman. Many other women worked in various jobs, either alongside husbands or fathers, or especially if widowed, on their own...
Sarah Josepha Halehad to go to work to support herself and her children after her husband died. In 1828, she became the editor of a magazine that later evolved into Godey's Lady's Magazine. It was billed as "the first magazine edited by a woman for women ... either in the Old World or the New." Ironically, it was Godey's Lady's Magazine that promot...
- Women’s Rights Movement Begins. The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. During the 1820s and '30s, most states had extended the franchise to all white men, regardless of how much money or property they had.
- Seneca Falls Convention. In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women’s rights.
- Civil War and Civil Rights. During the 1850s, the women’s rights movement gathered steam, but lost momentum when the Civil War began. Almost immediately after the war ended, the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution raised familiar questions of suffrage and citizenship.
- The Progressive Campaign for Suffrage 14 14 Images. This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Northwestern University. "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America." By Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Signs, 1. (1975), 1-29. The Feminization of American Culture. By Ann Douglas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 403 pages. $15.00.
