A woman's place is in the school : rhetorics of gendered space in nineteenth-century America / Jessica Enoch

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.

General Education.