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Catharine Beecher was a strong advocate of the inclusion of daily physical education in women's schooling, and developed a program of calisthenics performed to music. Catharine Beecher, ca. 1858-1862 In 1831, Catharine Beecher suggested that teachers read aloud to students from passages by writers with elegant styles, "to accustom the ear to ...
Portrait of Catharine Beecher. The American Woman's Home is a book published in 1869, co-authored by Catharine Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe.It expands upon Catharine’s 1841 book, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, which aimed to codify women's housekeeping duties and draw attention to the importance of this labor.
Beecher's subsequent trial was reported in newspapers across the country, resulting in what one scholar has called "political theater" that badly damaged the reputation of the suffrage movement. [125] The Supreme Court, in 1875, put an end to the New Departure strategy by ruling in Minor v.
In the 1830s and ’40s, education reformer Catharine Beecher (sister to the author Harriet Beecher Stowe and the preacher Henry Ward Beecher) popularized the idea of teaching as the female ...
Catharine Beecher, who proselytised about the importance of education and parenting, once said, "Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak, and ignorant creatures [children] to obey the laws of God ... first in the family, then in the school, then in the neighborhood, then in the nation, then in the world". [31]
The movement was a significant part of a remarkable transformation in American education in the period 1820–1850. [1] Supporting academic education for women, the seminaries were part of a large and growing trend toward women's equality. [2] Some trace its roots to 1815, and characterize it as at the confluence of various liberation movements.
Originating in New England, one particular Beecher family in the 19th century was a political family notable for issues of religion, civil rights, and social reform. Notable members of the family include clergy (Presbyterians and Congregationalists), educators, authors and artists.
Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut was established in 1823, by Catharine Beecher, making it one of the first major educational institutions for women in the United States. By 1826 it had enrolled nearly 100 students. It implemented then-radical programs such as physical education courses for women. [2]