Catharine Beecher

After learning so much about the different women who have impacted the ever changing domestic habits of people in the United States, I have become interested in learning more about their personal opinions. That is why I have decided to invite three women with varying ideals to my home for a meal and some conversation. I plan to discuss their differing views of domestic duties and gender roles to gain a better understanding of how much times have changed, and I will also share my opinions with them. The first woman I will invite Catharine Beecher; she will offer good opinions that are regarding women’s duties. Catharine’s views will be the most traditional, and she will most likely disagree with everything that I have to say regarding women’s roles. Catharine was a firm believer in the Doctrine of Separate Spheres, so she felt as though a woman’s duty was to take care of the home (Sturges). The second woman that I will invite to dinner is Fannie Farmer. As a woman who took one of the first steps towards a modern view on domesticity, I would really like to ask her…

The role of women within society has continued to be fought and changed for centuries upon centuries. Catharine Beecher exemplified the ideal woman during the 19th century as she accepted and supported her role as a woman trapped in the domestic sphere in her letter to Angelina Grimke in 1837. Angelina Grimke, however, did not succumb to these values, and was caught preaching abolitionist movements, thus creating the argument between these two women about their place in society. Essentially,…

Fonte was a venetian writer and poet during the European renaissance who often wrote romance and religious poetry. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that was said to have caused the civil war due to…

As the abolitionist movement gained traction, many women found themselves advocating in the public sphere. They were actively taking place in petitioning congress and even began publicly speaking out against slavery, a taboo act of the time to say the least. An act that did not go unopposed as can be seen Catharine Beecher’s letter to Angelina Grimké, an anti-slavery activist (Beecher, pp. 242-243). “Heaven has appointed to one sex the superior,” she claimed, “and to the other the subordinate…

In Feminist settings, conversations surrounding pornographic content and its influence are often polarizing; the discrepancy of attitudes towards pornography between opposing parties can be acrimonious and fraught with tension. Radical feminists tend to take up an anti-pornography stance, citing concerns of the representation of women, violent and sexist practices of the pornography industry and violence that correlates with the consumption of pornography. Liberal, sex-positive feminists have…

Laws Governing Sexual Harassment Clearly sexual harassment has been around as long as men and women have shared the same space. United States history is marked with this type of inappropriate and often heinous behavior. Reva Siegel and Catharine MacKinnon discuss this long history in an article they co-authored for the Yale Press in 2003. Siegel and MacKinnon point out that, “… sexual coercion was an entrenched feature of chattel slavery endured by African-American women” (Yale Press, 2003,…

2.2 Pornography - A Form of Oppression to Women? Academic literature on pornography (e.g. history of production and regulation of pornography) is extensive, and tends to focus on the male consumption of pornography. As afore-discussed, the evolution of the market of pornography couples with technological innovations could imply an increasing trend of men and women participating the production and/or consumption of pornography. However, many research on pornography such as Malamuth, Addison…

Midterm Case Study 1. What sorts of measures could We Care Health Plan take with its clients to prevent this situation? Do they have a duty to their own employees to do so? Sexual harassment in American work life is pervasive. Women today face many aspects of sexual harassments. Society general conversation on the topic is a good first step for addressing the problem as a whole, and first steps towards real change in culture and perceptions. Harassment is not limited to work place, but can…

Don’t take this article the wrong way, support of women 's rights is a good thing, but there are few that take it beyond what it is. They call themselves feminists, others would consider them as radical feminists. There is a difference between the two, feminism is a belief that man and woman should be equal in society and have equal opportunity in the world; radical feminism is a belief that men have been dominating over women for years and the women should be above the men in the societal…

any relationship exists between pornography and violence, between images and behavior. Even the pro-censorship Meese Commission Report admitted that the data connecting pornography to violence was unreliable… Feminist Thelma McCormick (1983) for the Metropolitan Toronto Task Force on Violence Against Women, find no pattern to connect porn and sex crimes.” Main arguments posed by anti-porn feminists against pornography are as follows; (i) pornography is degrading to women, (ii) pornography…