Liberation of Middle Class Women
...ss women who were not part of this women’s movement were assigned stations entailed submitting to mal authority, which limited their sphere of action to the private world of home and family, denying personal talents or interests saving those that im pinged upon the house hold, and doing so cheerfully and willingly. Debra Hansen’s secondary source quotes Martha Bell that once wrote “ Marriage is to woman at once the happiest and saddest event of her life.” Mostly all women felt this way except the evangelical women who made it clear that they did not want to equate female domesticity with female inferiority. Most women felt that even thought they were liberated that they still were being frowned upon. This was frustrating the women because they new that they had rights but they were still being discriminated against. This was because men still believed that women should stay at home, taking care of the kids, doing ...