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== Catharine Beecher, “System and Order,” 1841 == | == Catharine Beecher, “System and Order,” 1841 == | ||
| + | Were these books intended for women who had not gone to the womens academies at the time? or did Beecher just have a different view on how/when house work should be done which conflicted with what was taught at the schools? I found it interesting that unlike many previous articles we've read, the subject of equality is disregarded as a frivolous and impossible question to answer and "there would be no possible advantage in the decision." isnt this a subtle way of saying that men and women should be equal? -Will Hechmer | ||
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== Sarah Connell Ayer, “The Widowed State,” 1832-33 == | == Sarah Connell Ayer, “The Widowed State,” 1832-33 == | ||
| − | + | Here we see not only the dependence of women economically, at the time, on men but in her diary entries we also see the signs of the level of romantic love that was popular at this time. She appears to have a very close nit family, which we can see in her letters to and from her children. maybe i missed something, but why was there a decrease in remarriage that was previously more prevalent? did they think that marriage absolutely had to be a romantic engagement and that the idea of a practical marriage was completely gone? - Will Hechmer | |
