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Full-Text Articles in Women's History
“What The Women Of Maine Have Done”: Women’S Wartime Work And Postwar Activism, 1860-1875, Lisa Marie Rude
“What The Women Of Maine Have Done”: Women’S Wartime Work And Postwar Activism, 1860-1875, Lisa Marie Rude
Maine History
Maine women had been active in reform movements during the antebellum era. They joined mother’s associations, temperance groups, abolitionist societies, and woman suffrage organizations. Although the Civil War did not create activists, it did strengthen them, while opening the door for other women to become activists. The war provided an unprecedented opportunity for the women of Maine to be actors in the public sphere. Postwar women’s movements in Maine were therefore fueled by their agency on the home front during the war. The author is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, working under the supervision of Dr. …
Glimpses Into The Life Of A Maine Reformer: Elizabeth Upham Yates, Missionary And Woman Suffragist, Shannon M. Risk
Glimpses Into The Life Of A Maine Reformer: Elizabeth Upham Yates, Missionary And Woman Suffragist, Shannon M. Risk
Maine History
Raised in a religious family in Bristol, Elizabeth Upham Yates spent much of her adult life as a reformer. While in her twenties, Yates spent six years in China serving as a Methodist missionary trying to spread the gospel and Western culture. Upon returning to the United States she became involved in two domestic reform movements, temperance and women’s suffrage. She was active in the women’s suffrage movement from the 1890s until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and ran for lieutenant governor of Rhode Island in the election of 1920. Yates was never a nationally renowned figure …
“Mr.Editor, Have We Digressed?” Newspaper Editor John Neal And The Woman Suffrage Debate, Shannon M. Risk
“Mr.Editor, Have We Digressed?” Newspaper Editor John Neal And The Woman Suffrage Debate, Shannon M. Risk
Maine History
In May and June of 1870, Portland newspaper editor and reformer John Neal sparked a debate over women’s suffrage that elicited strong views on women’s place in society. Neal posted a call in the Daily Eastern Argus to like-minded women and men to meet to discuss how to bring about the women’s vote. His post led to a debate in Portland’s newspapers about the idea of women’s suffrage. Several respondents expressed outrage at women’s participation in politics, fearing it would lead to society’s downfall. Although the debate died down in June, Neal’s efforts gave renewed energy to Maine suffragists. The …
“To Conserve The Best Of The Old”: The Impact Of Professionalization On Adoption In Maine, Mazie Hough
“To Conserve The Best Of The Old”: The Impact Of Professionalization On Adoption In Maine, Mazie Hough
Maine History
The Good Samaritan Home Agency has served young pregnant rural women from throughout the state of Maine since 1902. In its first four decades, the Home attracted more women than it could serve by incorporating rural values of self-reliance and hard work into its philosophy and organizational structure. Women came to the home to deliver their children and stayed for a required six-month residency. Taking advantage of inexpensive childcare and job placement provided by the Agency, many women gained the opportunity to remain in the city; keep their children, obtain jobs, and marry. By the 1940s, pressure from state and …
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
Maine History
During the Early Republic, education for the daughters of Portland's elite families usually included “ornamental” subjects such as needlework, music, and painting in addition to the “useful” subjects of reading history, arithmetic, and geography. This curriculum mirrored that of fashionable schools for young ladies in New York, Philadelphia, and, of course, Boston. The “Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, ” opened in 1803 by the English “gentlewoman” Penelope Martin, instructed girls in “useful” and “ornamental ”subjects while also offering Portland’s best families the added cache of sending their daughters to a British-style boarding school for training as “proper” young ladies. …
Putting The House In Order: Women’S Cooperative Extension Work In The Early Twentieth Century, Abbe L. Karman
Putting The House In Order: Women’S Cooperative Extension Work In The Early Twentieth Century, Abbe L. Karman
Maine History
Maine’s Cooperative Extension Service, in addition to its work with farm men, sent female agents into the countryside to teach women the principles of thrift, modernity, and efficiency in the home. How successful agents were at instilling modem principles is difficult to determine, but their experiences, recorded in Extension annual reports, reveal the tensions between women aspiring to professional standards and those whose work revolved around the home. In this article, Abbe L. Karmen explores the biases of the agents themselves and the force of traditional domestic patterns in rural Maine.
"So Monstrous Smart" : Maine Women And Fashion, 1790-1840, Kerry A. O'Brien
"So Monstrous Smart" : Maine Women And Fashion, 1790-1840, Kerry A. O'Brien
Maine History
This article is overview of women's fashions, in Maine and elsewhere in the United States, in the nineteenth century.