19th Century Women

In the early 1800s, women were second-class citizens. Women were expected to restrict their area of interest to the home and the family. Women were not encouraged to have a real education or pursue a professional career. Also, women were considered unequal to their husbands and all males legally and socially. The day-to day lives of men and women were quite clearly divided during the late 1800s. Woman in the late 1800s were treated inhumane because of society, class, and their rights.

The relationship dynamic between men and women in the nineteenth century was patriarchal, male dominated. Men were seen as physically stronger, but inferior to women morally. This led women to play the domestic roles within a relationship and household, someone who took care of house chores and children. The men would slowly begin commuting to their work places, where they would make money to support

Women in the nineteenth century, for the most part, had to follow the common role presented to them by society. This role can be summed up by what historians call the “cult of domesticity”. The McGuffey Readers does a successful job at illustrating the women’s role in society. Women that took part in the overland trail as described in “Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey” had to try to follow these roles while facing many challenges that made it very difficult to do so.

women had to stay at home to make household goods to use in the 1700s-1800s

In the United States of America, there is always a power struggle. Women of the late 1800s showed men that they were here to change things up. The struggle even came from within, between the white and black women to see who would get power first. So, the struggle in late 1800s America was between the role of a man and a woman and was ultimately changing the role of a female in America, creating hundreds and hundreds of unions and associations, and finally creating many laws that were create an equal opportunity at the American dream.

The history in the 1800s was really rough then now days because they had the Nez Perce war going on and at the same time, we had problems with woman not being able to vote, and the Immigrants were all looking for jobs. As I said earlier about women not being able to vote was a big step back for woman, not so much for men as they didn’t want women to vote. As the author said in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights”(w.i.t.p.n.). Woman were treated imperfect towards men all because they were a different gender, which is unacceptable back in the 1840s and would be now if it happened because we should all be treated the the same and have the same rights. As it says in the text “In order to earn revenue from their land

During the nineteenth century remarkable benevolent and social movements, such as the antislavery, suffrage and temperance movement, were merely organized and promoted by women and impacted American families, and their religion. Hence, through history female religious activism in America can be separated in four periods. Since the Great Awakening, which started in 1797, and the revivals women were as prominent during the revivals as men, however were not provided with recognition or the right to lead the events. Starting in 1797 women played an important role in (synonym for fostering) revivals and within evangelism during the Second Great Awakening which ended in 1840, thus, the female reforms were not independent. This independency of women

Written towards the end of her career in 1966, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea features the creole woman, hybridity, loss of identity, and madness. She reimagines history and uses literary tradition to suit her voice and what she wants to articulate. Rhys writes, or elaborates on the history of Charlotte Brontë’s Bertha or “the madwoman in the attic” in the 19th century novel Jane Eyre, and gives her the voice she was denied with Brontë. Instead of the “animalistic” fiery woman who was negatively portrayed because of her “madness,” Rhys allows the reader to understand the history that caused the wounds Bertha bore. As Burns says, “Rhys’s novel consistently undermines stereotypes by illustrating their constructed, sociological basis” (22). Rhys sets up explanations for the actions of her characters and challenges readers’ notions of the ideologies about blacks, creoles, and life in the tropics. Rhys shows that Antoinette is not to be thought of as a monster as she is portrayed in Jane Eyre but rather—a woman who had dreams, fears, desires, and hopes of finding her identity and place in her world. The transformation of the identity of the mad Creole Bertha Rochester to Antoinette Cosway, illustrates how Rhys fills the void that Brontë left by affording Bertha her side of the story. When Rhys decided to write the history of Bertha she uncovered the colonist ideology that is seen in Jane Eyre. In Jane Eyre Bertha is considered “other” and in keeping with colonialism the

In the many writings about gender and power, the authors wrote both to support and go against women's expectations during this time period. During this time period women did not get much if any of an education and their main “jobs” were to care for the children and maintain the house. Throughout the articles many kinds of power were described.

A woman’s job during the 19th century was intense and many women overworked hard labor jobs. Each women’s job was different according to their social class, color, what gender they were attracted too, and if they were married. Charity and Sylvia were two lesbian women in the 19th century who had to go through work hardships in order to survive. Housewives and married labor women were dependent on their husbands, “Though the exact composition of her setting obviously depended upon the occupation and economic status of her husband, its general outlines were surprisingly similar regardless of where it was located” (Kerber 43). Free Black women had to face everyday struggles in order to maintain a roof on top of their heads, “Whether or not they

In the 1800s people did not think much about woman independency and were not familiar with it. This story shows how independent a woman can be. It shows this by showing us she can defend herself. She gets 15 dollars and throughout the story we see what she does with it and how she values everything. One of the first things she does is lays hands on these silk stocking which were so ever wonderful to her and so smooth. They were the best thing she has felt ever. They mention that she is hungry and that she would usually make tea and find anything there is to eat. This shows that she can be on her own as a woman and still be just okay. So she goes out and eats with this money she found. She notices that everyone is dressed nice and how they eat.

In the late nineteenth century and mid twentieth century, generally in the U.S. ladies were considered as substandard. Men did anything they could to keep ladies from entering certain parts of the business, moving down their activities with "Men are more grounded than ladies". The greater part of military aircraft were worked by men and it was additionally men who worked in a large portion of the manufacturing plants that created autos and other transportation vehicles, subsequently suggesting that innovation was a man's occupation. Ladies were consigned to being needle workers, some were secretaries, medical attendant, telephone administrators, and the lion's share were house spouses. December seventh, 1941 had came and gone, with the U.S. maritime armada being

In recorded history both men and women have been assigned different roles in society, called gender roles, and while the contribution of both genders is important women were not, and still are not, perceived as equal when compared to men. In recent history, beginning in the early 19th century, there have been monumental strides toward gender equality and while the movement for equality and women's rights is heading in a positive direction there is still a lot that needs to be accomplished before full and complete equality between the sexes is reached.

During the early 1800s, Americans generally believed that there was a definite difference in character between the sexes -- man was active, dominant, assertive, and materialistic, while woman was religious, modest, passive, submissive, and domestic. As a result, there developed an ideal of American womanhood, or a "cult of true womanhood" as denoted by historian Barbara Welter. This cult, evident in women's magazines and religious literature of the day, espoused four basic attributes of female character: piety, purity, submissiveness,domesticity.

Women in the 18th century were looked at as voiceless objects in a world ruled by men. Women and men did not always have equal rights. In the 18th century women were mainly defined by their family and household roles. The woman did not really have legal identity apart from their husbands. Women were look at as slaves because all they did was be at the house and satisfy their husbands in what they wanted. Men would have total control over his wife’s property. The woman also did not have the right to vote unlike men. Some things that women did not have the right of was to vote, own property, could not sit in a jury trial, and could not be a part of a lawsuit. In 1830, a number of women in the United States argued for the right of woman to own their property and to divorce. In the 18th century gothic literature was happening. Gothic literature was in fiction, art, music, poetry, film, and television. Gothic tradition also includes sense with extreme emotion, fear, madness, and death. Death as a tomb, entombment was also used which is to be placed in a tomb be buried. A feminist writer, publisher, social activist, public lecture, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, said that women depending on men made them unquestionable slaves to them in the United States society. Perkins married the artist Charles Stetson in1884, which then both had a daughter named Katherine. A story that she wrote that can illustrate how women were like in the 18th century is “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story “The