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Womens Rights Ashley AustinETE 100- Section 1February 15, 2010

The womens rights centers around four areas of strengthWomens domestic and family rolesReligion and spiritualityReform movementsLiterary works

Womens domestic and family rolesWomens role in the early days were described, encouraged, and reinforced in the literature of time.Amelias Simmons wrote the first cookbook entitled American Cookery, which was published in the United States.She made numerous recipes that adapted traditional recipes that substituted Native American ingredients like corn meal and squash.

Periodicals for womenMagazines and newspapers were designed for females in the nineteenth century.The first womens magazine was first published in the United States entitled, Ladys Magazine, and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge.The magazines offered advice, covered fashion news, instructed in child care, and promoted etiquette.The womens magazine

This illustration of the Ladys Magazine was to provide literary selections to inspire and amuse American women. This issue of the magazine argued that women should have equal educational opportunities and mental abilities.5Indian captivity narrativesWomen played a central role in many of the Indian captivity narratives as participants and in some cases as narrators.Some of the missionary literature attempts to describe native cultures, traditions, and stresses the importance of education.

religion and schoolThis division has an important collection of Shaker literature because of the Christian sects to the equality of women.Many of Shaker works are by and about women, including biographies of their women leaders.The central role played by African American women in organizing Sabbath schools and benevolent societies is acknowledged in the National Baptist Magazine.In this magazine Reverend J. Francis Robinson celebrates the pious, consecrated, self-sacrificing women who bring stability and support to such endeavors..Continued Shakers near Lebanon state of New York in their mode of worship.Some of the workers and Sunday School Scholars

Reform effortsThe pages of the early womens rights offers us a window on the beginning of a long struggle.Womens participation in all the major reform movements may be traced through a variety of formats, including magazines, books pamphlets, and scrapbooks.Women developed skills and expertise that would apply them to other reform efforts by playing a significant role in the anti-slavery movement.Maria Weston Chapman edited the first successful antislavery annual gift book, The Liberty Bell.Womens innovative organizational efforts can be followed in reports of the Proceedings of the Antislavery Convention of American Women.

..reforms continuedClick the link below to view the picture: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.24800700 Literary WorksOnly certain works by contemporary women writers and artists are found in the Press Collection or the Artists Books Collection.

The artists and their works are:Susan E. Kings- Women and Cars and GeorgiaJohanna Druckers worksSlyvias Plath- The Green RockArthur Millers- Homely Girl

All of their work found in these collections are often published in limited editions and with unusual artwork and bindings.

References American women: a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and Culture in the United States. (2001). Retrieved February 5, 2010, from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02952American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. (1815). Retrieved February 5, 2010, from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02973 Shakers near Lebanon state of N. York. (1830). Retrieved February 8, 2010, from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a15948 Stanford, P. T. (1898). African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection. Retrieved February 8, 2010, from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.24800700 Whitman, S. (1899). American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. Retrieved February 10, 2010, from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02990