TY  - BOOK
AU  - Enoch, Jessica.
TI  - A woman's place is in the school : : rhetorics of gendered space in nineteenth-century America 
PY  - 2008///
KW  -  Women in education -- United States -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States
KW  - Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century
N1  - General Education
N2  - In his 1822 speech to commemorate the opening of the women's seminary in Saugus, Massachusetts, principal Joseph Emerson outlines the positions that white, middle-class women were able to occupy in his early nineteenth-century American society. Not suprisingly, Emerson situates woman's most valuable work in the home. as a mother, the woman "is commited to the important office of guiding the house; of managing the internal concerns of the family; of contriving, ordering, directing, improving, or producing almost every thing that constitutes and promotes the comforts, the delights, and the endearments of domestic life
ER  -