Women’s roles throughout the 1800s evolved from segregation in the workplace and familial liabilities to advocating women’s rights in society. The workplace for women in the market revolution gave them economic and employment opportunities, while at home, changing with the Second Great Awakening, women were bound to a cult of domesticity, being a homemaker as well as obeying the husband and taking care of the children. Both of these roles culminated into the woman’s rights of the Seneca Falls Convention, leading women closer to modern feminist movements. Starting with the social separation and family traditions women became less restrained by society and drove towards their own individual rights. During the market revolution, the new industrial
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Right after the influence of the market revolution, women already had more say in their home life. Although bound to the cult of domesticity, women could begin to marry without the reliance on the husband in arrangement. Families could become smaller because women were more able to decide on fewer children, bringing about the idea of domestic feminism, giving women the right for power in the home. This right put women closer to children, making mothers the prime caretakers and home teachers for children, strengthening the bonds between women and children (Doc G). The connection was not only present in white women, but also in black female slaves, who proved to be connected to their children when forced to separate through slave selling (Doc B). During the Second Great Awakening, women were mainly responsible for religious influence on the family. While women became the majority of new church members, the revivalism of the time brought about reformation in women, forming organizations for the salvation of their husbands and society. Women banded together despite doubts of the revival, transforming women into being “out-spoken in [their] religious convictions, and zealous for the conversion of her friends” (Doc A), …show more content…
Since the reformation during the Second Great Awakening, organizations concerning temperance and abolitionism began to form, and women started to band together for their societal rights. Starting to break away from the natural obedience to the husband, similar to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wives stopped believing that they had to serve their master, be treated like slaves, be beaten, or have their property rights relinquished. Women began to state their own opinions on societal issues, joining together in general reform for the issues of temperance and abolition of slavery. Women including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and Lucretia Mott began with abolitionism, believing that “women, with the strength and enlightening power of truth on their side, may… do something to overthrow [slavery]” (Doc C). Other non-woman’s rights issues were criticized, like the dilemma of mental institutions, when Dorothea Dix called the attention of the Massachusetts legislature for “the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens” (Doc F). After women banded together for these types of issues, women’s rights were debated, with Susan B. Anthony as a powerful female rights speaker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton pressing
Right after the influence of the market revolution, women already had more say in their home life. Although bound to the cult of domesticity, women could begin to marry without the reliance on the husband in arrangement. Families could become smaller because women were more able to decide on fewer children, bringing about the idea of domestic feminism, giving women the right for power in the home. This right put women closer to children, making mothers the prime caretakers and home teachers for children, strengthening the bonds between women and children (Doc G). The connection was not only present in white women, but also in black female slaves, who proved to be connected to their children when forced to separate through slave selling (Doc B). During the Second Great Awakening, women were mainly responsible for religious influence on the family. While women became the majority of new church members, the revivalism of the time brought about reformation in women, forming organizations for the salvation of their husbands and society. Women banded together despite doubts of the revival, transforming women into being “out-spoken in [their] religious convictions, and zealous for the conversion of her friends” (Doc A), …show more content…
Since the reformation during the Second Great Awakening, organizations concerning temperance and abolitionism began to form, and women started to band together for their societal rights. Starting to break away from the natural obedience to the husband, similar to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wives stopped believing that they had to serve their master, be treated like slaves, be beaten, or have their property rights relinquished. Women began to state their own opinions on societal issues, joining together in general reform for the issues of temperance and abolition of slavery. Women including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and Lucretia Mott began with abolitionism, believing that “women, with the strength and enlightening power of truth on their side, may… do something to overthrow [slavery]” (Doc C). Other non-woman’s rights issues were criticized, like the dilemma of mental institutions, when Dorothea Dix called the attention of the Massachusetts legislature for “the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens” (Doc F). After women banded together for these types of issues, women’s rights were debated, with Susan B. Anthony as a powerful female rights speaker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton pressing