Education: Lesson Details
Objectives
1. To examine the role of women in public life in the mid-1800s, a time when gender norms tended to define women as inhabiting a private sphere.
2. To identify how female social reformers voiced their appeals to the conscience of the public and politicians.
3. To analyze the efforts of Dorothea Dix to reform care for the "indigent insane" in the mid-1800s and the relationship between hers and other social movements of the period.
Materials
Background Essays
- Miss Dorothea Dix
- Religion In Nineteenth-Century America
- Women In Nineteenth-Century America
- Women and Nineteenth-Century Reform