1. Women & Reform

2. Cult of Domesticity
 A Woman’s home was her sphere of
influence

3. Catharine Beecher
 Treatise on
Domestic
Economy
 1841

4. New use of the
Cult of
Domesticity?
Temperance
Movement
Effective?

5. Lydia Finney

6. Prisons & the Mentally Ill
 Dorothea Dix
 Focus on
rehabilitation
 MA & 9
southern states
 Moved mentally
ill out of prison

7. Education
 Before: mostly private academies or private
tutor
 Shift – Education is needed for democracy.
 Perfectibility of Man
 Changing world needs smarter people

8. Education
 Emma Willard
1821 – Troy Female
Seminary

9. Education
Prudence Crandall
1831 – opened
school in
Canterbury, CT
1833 – Allowed
black girls
1834 – Forced to
close

10. Horace Mann
 What do you know?
Ohio gave him a statue…..
We gave him Shaw’s !

11. Education
Mary Lyon
1837 – Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary

12. Education
Oberlin College – 1837 - Ohio
Coeducational – 4 female students

13. Education
 Sarah Grimke
1838 – Letters on the
Equality of the Sexes and
the Condition of Women

14. Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. Harriet
Jacobs
Note the Date
Published

16. Splits in the Cause
 Beecher
vs Grimkes vs
Truth

17. Health



1849
Elizabeth Blackwell
NY Infirmary for
Women & Children



1850s
Catharine Beecher –
Study of Women’s
Health

18. Seneca Falls
Convention

20. Susan B. Anthony