HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Separate Spheres, Transcendentalism
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Can help ppl nd god in them. If you can transcend then you can help others too. House and work become opposites and men leave off for work while women stay at home. Wives focus on making home perfect and children great. Huge emphasis on homemakers and perfect mothers. Women"s magazines came about with advices for women in houses. Ideas develop that men and women are biologically suited to be housewives and men workers. Don"t need a wife for economic purposes but more for companionate relationship/ marriage. Size of fams in 19th cent are reduced. Children become a hassle and drain money from parents.
