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| Myth and legends aresimilar to the western beliefs of creation and a returning messiah. The role of the woman is also the same |
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1595-1617
most famous popularized native american woman (disney)
Married John Rolfe a big tobacco trader
dies of small pox before returning to England
Served as an image of how Native Americans can change to civil beings |
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1700-1763
Daughter of English trader and indian mother and served as a cultural liaison between colonial Georgia and Native American community and colonial Georgia |
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Colonial Period
once married all legal rights of women went to their husband
**widowed women were the only exception** |
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Milder form of slavery,whites were allowed to come over to the colonies to work for a period of time auntil their servitude was paid of in labor
Women were taken advantage of in these situations, but some used it as a opportunity for marriage |
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1612-1672
poet,intellect early feminist, free thinker who wrote about her life experiences as a puritan woman
expected to attend services but could not speak,cared for her husband, love and raise her children |
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1637-8(1636-8)
Puritan mother of 15
Mass. Bay Colony
Banished after Antinomian Controversy, gatherings were seen as unorthodox |
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Jan. 1692-May 63
25 deaths
over 200 accused
the accused were females in 40s, low status, conflict with neighbors |
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1730s and 1740s
George Whitefield major player
Conversion , creation of new denominations: Baptists, Methodists |
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1770s
women actively participated in the american revolution in distinctly gendered ways
brought changes with traditional expectations |
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led the boycott of tea from England
homespun movement, held spinning bees |
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Revolution era
The wife of John Adams,who wrote letters to her husband to voice her female opinion and representation (john dimissed them) |
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Revolutionary War
civic leader for soldiers relief
provided aid for George Washington's troops
organized a women's group in Philadelphia |
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Revolution
known as a icon one of the camp followers who would provide water and cooled the cannons |
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Revolution
Freed slave
Learned to read and write as a slave,
patriot,poet (married to another freed slave) |
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| believed that women needed a chance for the good of women,not just for the good of men (reference to republican motherhood) |
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An adovcate of Women's education
with the exception of math, philosophy..and
latin
just reading and writing |
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| Patriotic duty of a mother to educate her sons to be moral and virtuous citizens (apart of coverture) |
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19th cent.
The expectations of Women: Piety (religious) , Purity, Submissive & Domesticity
Ideal but not necessarily a reality |
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1830-78
Widely circulated magazine before the civil war
used as a guide for fashion culture, maternity
messages portrayed, selflessness purity, fashionable, petite and always with children, |
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19th Century
A study of young women working in a New England Factory
sense of pride and independence of women,lived in community together |
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1780s
Mass. Conn.
Religious group founded on the teachings of Ann Lee (believed she was the 2nd coming)
model of sex equality |
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1820s-1845
middle class, develop ideas about family
Space between the private and public
(New England) |
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1840-41
Reform conditions for the mentally ill
Mass.
Could only submit ideas in writing |
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1841- A treatise on Domestic Economy Connection between domesticity and education
Women are morally superior than men
women shouldn't lower themselves by entering in to politics |
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1852
Uncle Tom's cabin
Abolitionist of the Anti slavery movement
"spark of civil war" -Lincoln |
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One of if not the first woman who did not take her husband's last name
Abolitionist and suffragist
1847, first college grad of Mass
Seneca Falls |
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Abolitionist
Essential organizer of 1848 Seneca Falls 1st Women's rights convention |
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July 19-20, 1848
The first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York |
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| Declerataion of Sentiments |
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July 1848
Document written at the Seneca Falls convention
Based on the deceleration of independence, for the rights of women
signed by 68 women and 32 men |
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1840
Angelina & Sarah
Letters on the condition of women and the equality of the sexes
Rejected the ideas of C. Beecher |
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cerca 1830s-1840s
Abolitionism, a movement to end slavery
appealed to women who sought rights and freedom in there own respects |
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The wife of the plantation owner
pedstal, pure, pious, female chasity, great privilege
interesting dynamic of relationships between the female slaves on the plantation |
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Civil War
African American writer who escaped from slavery
abolitionist and speaker |
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| Women joined anti slavery societies abolitionist |
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the most common role for females during the war
maternal, changing from a male dominant practice to female dominant
a way for women to earn money |
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middle aged women
regional and national federation for political influence |
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1879-1899
President of WCTU
Rode bike as a symbol of freedom |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
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founded 1874
Largest organization of women at time challenged the liquor industry
*prohibition |
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1872
first woman to run for president
member of NWSA
believed in "free love" |
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Early 1800s
True womanhood implemented into larger society
care taking, piety, purity |
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turn of the 20th cent.
blue collar, clerical and service occupations
new ways of dress aka "bachelor girl" |
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late 19th to 20th century
personification of the feminine ideal of beauty portrayed by the satirical pen and il illustrations of Charles Gibson |
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1890-1920
urbanizing, industrializing |
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early 20th century
social worker& most prominent female reformer |
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| Women's Trade Union League |
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1908
played an intricate role in legal protection of women working in factories
women are seen as weaker than men |
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labor laws
chief factory inspector IL (maternal role)
divorcee of abusive relationship |
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