HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Perfect Sense, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, American Medical Association
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Pick up from previous class september 21, 2016. Women in professions that opened up and quickly became dominated by women: These all being part of the so called helping vocations for women. Teaching: back in the day it was commonly believed (when a vast majority of students were boys), that in order for children to learn it required discipline, discipline that only male teachers could give. That thinking began to change however, in the aftermath of republican motherhood with the mothers then instructing their offspring on how to be virtuous and loyal subjects to the country. The beginning forms of what we know today as developmental psychology. For the first time, childhood was viewed as a distinct phase of human development. The thinking being that when children were young, it wasn"t discipline they needed, instead it was nurturing. One of those in-born characteristics that women possessed.
