1. Origins of Feminist Movement

2. Republican Motherhood
Modern interpretation of the idealized role of women in
Benefits elite rather than all women

3. The Status of Women Education was “frivolous”
Legal Status
Coverture
Dependent and unequal
Political and legal non-existence
Education was “frivolous”
Women not treated as if they possessed logic or reason
Could injure the brain, harm health, and make you unfit for marriage
Emerging belief in separate, very distinct, characteristics between men and women

4. The Cult of Domesticity (Cult of True Womanhood)
Private Sphere
Women had “power” and “influence”
Public Sphere
Business, industry, politics, and law

5. Separate Spheres Industrialization and urbanization
The home is no longer the focus of work
Unique to the middle class

6. Gender inequality Creation of modern gender roles
Certain behavior expectations for each gender
Woman: religiously pious, morally pure, physically delicate, highly emotional and intuitive, submissive to her husband, and above all else devoted to the domestic pursuits of housekeeping and child-rearing
Man: strong, coarse, unemotional, intellectual, rational, and skilled and enterprising enough to make a living for himself and his family
Creation of modern gender roles

7. More effects Fewer births = focus on “childhood” Benevolent societies
Women’s rights movement