Missionization and the Cult of Domesticity, 1769–1850: Local Investigation of a Global Process

Middleton, Angela

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4863-1_8

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“…Expanding research on domestic reform has included Swedish cooperative laundries (Arwill-Nordbladh 2013), American dress reform (Nickolai 2013, Spencer-Wood 2013, playgrounds in Boston (Spencer-Wood 1994b, kindergartens around San Francisco Bay (Praetzellis 2013), overseas missions (Middleton 2013), and domestic sites of reform women (Christensen 2013;Rotman 2013;Yentsch 2013). Research has also been conducted on sites of female religious reformers (Nickolai 2003), and the materializations of reform concepts of masculinity and femininity (Kruczek-Aaron 2013).…”

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“…Research has also been conducted on sites of female religious reformers (Nickolai 2003), and the materializations of reform concepts of masculinity and femininity (Kruczek-Aaron 2013). Some research has shown that reform women changed programs in social settlements, missions, kindergartens and playgrounds, in response to reactions by program participants, which were recorded by reformers and are some of the few surviving records of working-class and immigrant voices (Middleton 2013, Praetzellis 2013, Spencer-Wood 1994a,b, 1996.…”

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The Creation of the American Playground Movement by Reform Women, 1885–1930: A Feminist Analysis of Materialized Ideological Transformations in Gender Identities and Power Dynamics

Spencer‐Wood

Blackburn

2017

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Feminist research rediscovers the full scope of leadership by reform women and their organizations in initiating the American playground movement by creating playgrounds across the country. The multiple meanings of play and playground landscapes developed from interrelated ideological conceptions of motherhood and childhood that evolved over 200 years. Traditional domestic feminine identity was masculinized to authorize women to create publicsphere playgrounds. Team games merged feminine and masculine values to create new intersectional identities by teaching boys a feminized masculinity and girls a masculinized femininity. Reconnaissance surveys of historic playgrounds in Boston and Detroit found that playgrounds declined after 1950.

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