HIUS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Pauperism, Republican Society, Yellow Fever
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Hius 130 textbook notes city of women (chapters 1 & 2) Introduction: women moral guardians of their families, nation, constriction of social engagements, since their power came to be confined to the home. Sanitation problems as the city grew: outbreaks of yellow fever. Women"s work: becoming a widow was almost synonymous with poverty, as well as a man leaving for war, domestic service the most common. Setting up bed and breakfasts/letting people sleep in their homes: doing laundry, more common with black women, since it was one of the few jobs that they could obtain. In summer and fall, went to the country to work on farms. Chapter 2: the problem of dependency: men and women, rich and. Poor: poverty became seen as a situation which the poor people put themselves in by 1820, before 1820, all women were lumped together in a group by republican society as dependents.
