Friday, February 11, 2011
Impressive Women
After reading Mary Ryan's essay "A Women's Awakening", I couldn't help but notice the pressure put on women during the Second Great Awakening. The women monitored the finances of their families and at the same time instilled christian values into their children. The women essentially had two full-time jobs. The mothers "planted the families' religious roots" and the "involvement in religious benevolence filled the consequent vacuum in woman's everyday life" and on top of all that were often times required to be model accountants. Moreover, women were passionate about being involved outside of the home. They joined and formed organizations including the Female Missionary Society, the Maternal Association, and even published a magazine, The Mother's Magazine, which guided mothers in religiously upbringing their children. I did not realize the involvement of women amidst the Second Great Awakening and am rather impressed by their abilities and passions.
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Dan,All you write here is true and worthy of admiration. Buried a bit in the Ryan article, but nonetheless important, in this same period many Americans were making a physical separation between their home and their workplace. The result often was that women's work was hidden in the home while men's was visible in public. A parallel distinction in the values relevant to each arena would encourage the sort of associations women formed. LDL
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