Catherine Beecher

After researching Catherine Beecher, I learned that she was a huge advocate for the education of women. However, I would have never known that by reading her writing on housekeeping. I also learned that Beecher was an anti-suffragist because she believed women had very specific roles in life and should not get mixed up in politics. These roles, according to Beecher, were to be the best mother and teacher possible. Her writing on housekeeping was a way of emphasizing these roles of a mother and a teacher and the affect they have on the family.