Instead they were cast in a new role: Republican Motherhood. "Although Republican Motherhood improved women's educational opportunities and offered them a public role of sorts, it stopped far short of conferring legal equality and full voting citizenship". ... In the 1780's and 1790's the idea of a new Republican Mother emerged. ... (lecture, 1/24) Although this idea of Republican Motherhood was not created by women and was only used to appease them, it was one step closer to introducing politics into domesticity. ... (Benjamin Rush, 60) Rush thought that Republican Motherhoo...

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"Republican Motherhood" took place when the mothers were seen as a model of proper republican poise. After "Republican Motherhood" was established educational opportunities for women were expanded so that they could mold the integrity of their family. ...

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This reappearance of domestic values left the eager dream of motherhood freshly engraved on almost every woman's mind, finalizing abortion as unnecessary. To only contribute to the desire for motherhood, the domestic icon was praised for all her natural capabilities as home manager, ranging from gourmet chef to financial assistant (Maloy and Patterson 16-17 34). ... Contrary to Gloria's opinion, factions of republican naming themselves pro-family, adopted opposition to recognition of women's right as a major portion of their platform. Whether the woman was willing to accept t...

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The First Ladies in Female Spheres Massachusetts-born Abigail Smith inherited New England's potent traditions and continued to personify republican values until her death in 1818. ... After her death in 1818, she stands remembered as both a patriot and First Lady as well as an embodiment of a republican mother who gave birth to a future President. ... Marriage and motherhood were considered the principal occupations of every female and "patient submission" in all duties was the expected norm and virtue. ...

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People thought that teaching had vocational value for girls in their late teens that were not yet married because tending to the children at school could be considered an apprenticeship for motherhood, which would be their lifetime career. ... They brought their republican womanhood into the classroom and were able to teach bible readings that may have only been learned in church if the children's parents did not know how to read or did not know how to read. ...

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In this essay I will discuss the developments of women from the years of the Civil War all the way to the years of the Revolutionary War. I will discuss the cult of republican motherhood, the domesticity of women, work of women, women in reform, and both southern slave and free women. Women's adva...

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The idea of the republican mother stemmed from the revolution, "a woman's patriotic duty to educate her sons to be moral and virtuous citizens linked her to the state and gave her some degree of power over its future." ... In the 1780's the idea of republican motherhood stimulated a debate on women's education and provoked the founding of female academies, the first institutional settings in which young woman could receive serious academic training. ...

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" - Grover Cleveland On August 3rd, 2000, in his Acceptance speech , at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, President George W. ... A future Democratic administration might deny grants to organizations that lean Republican and give them to those with dispositions closer to that administration's liking. ... Research has also shown that the welfare system seems to further discourage work and encourage dependency, single motherhood and the breakup of families. ...

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The idea of the republican mother stemmed from the revolution, "a woman's patriotic duty to educate her sons to be moral and virtuous citizens linked her to the state and gave her some degree of power over its future." ... In the 1780's the idea of republican motherhood stimulated a debate on women's education and provoked the founding of female academies, the first institutional settings in which young woman could receive serious academic training. ...

• Word Count: 1951
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Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...

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Abstract The object of this study is to explore specific identity-formations that have occurred under specific cultural and socio-political contexts that have enabled women politicians in India to acquire political power. The paper will examine Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, and Jayalalithaa, and try to understand what led to the personalization of power in all four cases. The idea is to analyze the relationship between particular identities that these figures have acquired in popular discourse and particular modalities of power. What do the invocation of mother or sister figures sig...

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