"Dear Mother of My Soul" Fidelia Fiske and the Role of Women Missionaries in Mid-Nineteenth Century Iran

This article examines the role of women in manufacturing and the urban economy of Istanbul during the premodern period. It shows that Ottoman women engaged in a variety of economic activities, and invested in the real estate market. They participated in the textile industry of Bursa, Ankara, and Istanbul as weavers, dyers, and embroiderers. Their labor, however, remained marginal to artisanal production through the guilds. Very few women were accepted into the guilds. They were hired by the putting-out merchants to produce secretly at home. Their input to manufacturing increased in the second half of the nineteenth century when the guilds were losing their monopoly over production.

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Domestication as Reform: A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856-1905

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/haer.50.2.r3p6671684776528 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 196-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Barbara Brenzel

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Childhood Poverty ◽

Progressive Reform ◽

Reform School ◽

Role Of Women ◽

Policies And Programs ◽

Century Thought

Barbara Brenzel examines nineteenth-century juvenile reform policies by telling the story of Lancaster, a progressive reform school for girls in Massachusetts. Analyzing the efforts of reformers to socialize poor girls, many of whom were immigrants, she describes the contradictory dual purposes underlying these policies—fear and benevolence. The discussion of Lancaster illustrates how particular policies and programs for potentially deviant girls reflected nineteenth-century thought about reform, childhood,poverty, and especially the role of women in society.

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‘Lights in Dark Places’: Women Evangelists in Early Victorian Britain, 1838-1857

Studies in Church History ◽

10.1017/s0424208400012213 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 415-427

Author(s):

Donald M. Lewis

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Issues ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Popular Religion ◽

Beliefs And Practices ◽

Victorian Britain ◽

Role Of Women

Twenty years ago, Olive Anderson called for more detailed study of how the role of women changed in the nineteenth century, pointing out that only such careful investigations ‘can show how far the conventional stress upon feminism has been well judged’. She noted the contemporary strength of the churches as ‘the great arbiters of public attitudes toward social issues’ and argued that the beliefs and practices of popular religion (‘the religion of the unsophisticated laity in general’) were ‘full of change and diversity’.

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Evangelical Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Women in Sunday Schools

Feminist Studies ◽

10.2307/3177538 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 62 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Anne M. Boylan

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Sunday Schools ◽

Role Of Women

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“And How Pretty They Are!”: Lawn Tennis, Tourism, and Gender Relations at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1880s-1920s

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144220983348 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 009614422098334

Author(s):

Robert J. Lake

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Gender Relations ◽

Lake Ontario ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

High Class ◽

Role Of Women ◽

Upper Middle Class ◽

And Gender

In the four decades straddling the turn of the nineteenth century, the small Ontario town of Niagara-on-the-Lake experienced marked growth in its tourism industry. Catering predominantly to wealthy upper-middle-class Canadian and American visitors, the lake-side settlement offered numerous opportunities for polite recreation. Chief among them was lawn tennis, a sport that sat somewhat outside of the mainstream in terms of its high-class, mixed-sex participation demographic. While its players were imbued with a strong amateur philosophy, local boosters recognized the sport’s potential to generate tourism income through its two tournaments, but this hinged on the outward presentation among its players/guests of refined gentility—a reflection of both class and gender—both on and off the court. This article considers how lawn tennis tournaments fit into the town’s burgeoning tourism industry, and examines gender relations—particularly the role of women—in relation to this development.

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Female Presences in The Cultural Press of The 19th Century

Theatrical Colloquia ◽

10.2478/tco-2021-0024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 109-122

Author(s):

Oana-Nicoleta Bartoş-Agavriloaie

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

Point Of View ◽

Role Of Women ◽

The 19Th Century

Abstract The nineteenth century was a time of beginnings for the cultural press, marked by the actions of personalities who actively participated in the development of this field, but often the involvement of women is less valued, compared to that of men. Therefore, we consider opportune a study focused on the cultural-journalistic activity of three remarkable ladies: Maria Rosetti, Sofia Nădejde, Cornelia Morţun, who had an important contribution, not only in terms of the topics they covered, but also through their point of view, reformulating the role of women in that era.

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The Role of Women in 19th Century Mount Lebanon

Al-Raida Journal ◽

10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1141 ◽

1970 ◽

pp. 5-6

Author(s):

Nada Awar

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

Primitive Condition ◽

Role Of Women ◽

Village Society

Nineteenth Century Mount Lebanon consisted of an agricultural village society. Communication between the villages was difficult because connecting roads were very narrow. unpaved and in primitive condition. Donkeys were the popular means of transportation. The donkey driver. Mkari, acted as a means for communication and a post-man between the villages. People who could not afford the Mkari's fees or who did not own a donkey walked from one village to another whenever neccessary.

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