How Shakers and Margaret Fuller were Creating a Challenge to Society
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http://youtu(dot)be/-81MNWAxAYM
Centered on faith, hard work, and the early stirrings of racial and sexual equality, the Shaker
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Centered on faith, hard work, and the early stirrings of racial and sexual equality, the Shaker lifestyle was in many ways ahead of its time. But what was daily life like inside Shaker communities? Several years in the making, this program uses extensive archival footage integrated with reenactments and scholarly interviews to illustrate the Shakers’ ordered, highly idealistic society. Visits to historic establishments in Pleasant Hill and South Union, Kentucky, shed light on distinctive Shaker crafts and architecture (churches, barns, houses, and furniture) as well as complex cultural and economic issues (financial management, dissolution of the traditional family structure, and more) that shaped the United Society of Believers
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In Margaret Fuller’s Memoirs she wrote, “I remember how, as a little child, I had stopped myself one day on the stairs, and asked ‘How came I here? How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?’” During her brief life of 40 years, Fuller made every effort to answer those questions, supported and documented by her inquiring nature and writings, all to fulfill American women’s growing intellectual and spiritual needs. In this program hosted by James H. Bride, distinguished educators Megan Marshall (author of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life), Joan Von Mehren, Peter McFarland, and Joel Myerson contribute to the first comprehensive overview of Margaret Fuller’s life, times, and achievements. The Margaret Fuller Legacy examines her Transcendental period as editor of the first literary magazine in America, The Dial, along with her professional and personal relationships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Additionally, the video brings to light her Conversations—the first successful women’s studies initiative in America—in Boston and at Brook Farm and her role as the first American female journalist and foreign reporter with the New-York Tribune. The program concludes at the Fuller monument at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Social Sciences
11 September 2016
Women in the 1800s
Women in the 1800s received a different kind of treatment compared to how they are regarded today. This paper will discuss about women in the United States in the early 1800s and how Shakers and Margaret Fuller were creating a challenge to society.
In the early 1800s, only men were allowed to vote and can participate in political activity. Women stay at home to tend to the house and take care of the children, but are expected to raise a good republican son. It is the responsibility of women to instill the values, virtues, and morals of a republican to hone them into well-rounded citizens. Even if such responsibility is given to them, there are women who complained, but it is going to take decades before they can organize a protest for their suffering.
When Ann Lee founded the Shakers in England in 1770, they created a challenge to society because of their belief in sexual equality. Hogan wrote “the Shakers were celibate, and in the community, men and women had different sets of responsibilities, but were fundamentally equal†(2005). Based on the Shakers Heritage Society of Albany New York Web site, equality that the Shakers believed in was in total contrast of how women were being perce...