HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Separate Spheres, Seneca Falls Convention, William Macready
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The wife cook and clean for them as well. The wife has virtually no opportunities or legal rights, they just need to fulfil the needs of the husband and family. For them, no clear distinction between work and family. The relationship between home and work changed differently for all the northern people. Wage earning employees started replacing the apprentices who lived in the master"s home. As the business world became competitive, the home became refugee for the economy. It became women"s responsibility to keep like that. Women saw the nation moral and spiritual need. A women is to remain under the formal rule under the men. Wives must remain domestic, submissive, pure: pre-industrial, middle-class separate spheres , men"s public sphere, women"s private sphere, the cult of true womanhood . In the accepting world, many northern women got into movements to oppose alcohol, charity, and abolishment of slavery. Some female activist began to question about their own political views.
