Abstract
Abstract I do not hesitate to avow, that, although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position; if I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply-to the superiority of their women. Catharine Beecher is the most famous nineteenth-century writer on domesticity. Were it necessary to summarize her significance to the construction of domesticity in America, that summary would be this: Catharine Beecher made a place for (middle-class white) women by synthesizing political, philosophical, and religious discourses with those concerning domestic labor, architecture, and design.
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