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Virginia R Bensen
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What is Feminism?
American Women's History Journey
10/27/19 • 11 min
You can view our show notes for Season 1, Episode 5, What is Feminism? by clicking on our direct link to American Women's History Journey E-Zine.
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Check out our show notes at: American Women's History Journey E-Zine. At this site you can also see articles that deal with this topic.
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The Ideal of True Womanhood
American Women's History Journey
08/02/19 • 9 min
Show Notes:
The antebellum ideal of True Womanhood is discussed. The four virtues of this ideal are described.
Sources:
Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860," American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer 1966), 151-174.
Nancy Hewitt. "Introduction," Companion to American Women's History (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
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Republican Motherhood
American Women's History Journey
07/19/19 • 7 min
SHOW NOTES
Season 1, Episode 2: Republican Motherhood
In this episode, the ideal of Republican Motherhood is described and how it came about in America during the late 1700s.
Sources for this Episode:
Susan M. Cruea, "Changing Ideals of Womanhood During the Nineteenth-Century Woman Movement," Bowling Green State University: ScholarWorks@BGSU: 902995: 187-204.
Carol Berkin, Revolutionary Mothers, Vintage Books, New York, 2005, page 152.
Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Margaret A. Nash, "Rethinking Republican motherhood: Benjamin Rush and the Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia, Journal of the Early Republic, vol.17, no. 2, (Summer 1997), 171-191.
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SHOWNOTES
Season 1, Episode 1: Just What is American Women's History?
Introduction: Brief introduction to American Women's History Journey Podcast.
What and Why American Women's History: Brief discussion about the definition of American women's history and why American women's history was established in the academy.
Sources:
Nancy A. Hewitt, ed., A Companion to American Women's History, Madden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, 2005.
Susan Ware, American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction, New York Oxford University Press, 2015.
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