Examples of Public sphere in the following topics:
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- "Separate spheres" refers to an ideology that defines and prescribes different realms for women and men.
- The notion of separate spheres dictates that men, based primarily on their biological makeup as well as on the will of God, inhabit the public sphere—the world of politics, economy, commerce, and law.
- In Politics, Aristotle described two separate spheres in Greek society: the home (oikos) and the city (polis).
- Women were confined to the private realm of the oikos while men occupied the public sphere of the polis.
- The publication also equated womanhood with motherhood and with being a wife, declaring that the "perfection of womanhood (...) is the wife and mother."
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- Part of the separate spheres ideology, the cult of domesticity identified the home as women's "proper sphere. " Prescriptive literature advised women on how to transform their homes into domestic sanctuaries for their husbands and children.
- Women were the center of the domestic sphere and expected to fulfill the roles of a calm and nurturing mother, a loving and faithful wife, and a passive, delicate, and virtuous creature.
- The division between the domestic and public spheres had an impact on women's power and status.
- Parlor games decreased in popularity in the first half of the twentieth century as radio, movies, and later, television captured more of the public's leisure time.
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- During World War II, the traditional gender division of labor changed, as the "home" or domestic female sphere expanded to include the "home front".
- Meanwhile, the public sphere—the male domain—was redefined as the international stage of military action.
- Describe the changing roles of women as the "home" or domestic sphere was expanded to include the "home front."
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- Republican Motherhood, while maintaining women's role in the private sphere, gave women more rights to education.
- They believed this domestic role—rather than the more public roles promoted by Mary Wollstonecraft and her contemporaries—was the appropriate path for women.
- On the one hand, the concept reinforced the idea of a domestic women's sphere separate from the public world of men.
- On the other hand, it encouraged the education of women and imbued their "traditional" sphere with a dignity and importance that had been missing from previous conceptions of women's work.
- For the most part, women were excluded from the political realm during this era; however, a few women, such as Abigail Adams, entered the political arena as public figures.
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- For instance, elected bodies, specifically the assemblies and county governments, directly determined the development of a wide range of public and private business.
- They were also involved in the oversight of roads, taverns, schools, and relief of the poor, making them fundamental to the development of public and private enterprises in a particular region.
- Unlike Europe, where aristocratic families and established churches dominated the political sphere, American political culture was relatively open to economic, social, religious, ethnic, and geographical interests (although still excluding the participation of American Indians, women, and African Americans).
- Hence, the colonial American political system was remarkably different from Europe, where widespread public participation in the political sphere by free white males was expected and enjoyed.
- While politics in colonial America were public and relatively accessible to most social groups of white males, it was primarily localized in scope—the 13 colonies were not united by a confederate system across regional boundaries until the outset of the American Revolution.
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- Revolutionary-era American society limited women's actions to the domestic or private sphere.
- They continued to be relegated to the home and domestic spheres, and were unwelcome in political and economic contexts.
- The ideal Whig woman would help the patriotic cause from inside her separate sphere, engaging in domestic chores and preparing to educate the next generation according to the values espoused by the men who fought for independence.
- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
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- During the early nineteenth century, women were mainly relegated to the private sphere through the "cult of domesticity."
- Unfortunately, direct participation in the public arena was fraught with difficulties and danger.
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- They continued to be relegated to the home and domestic spheres and were unwelcome in political and economic contexts.
- The ideal Whig woman would help the patriotic cause from inside her separate sphere, engaging in domestic chores and preparing to educate the next generation according to the values espoused by the men who fought for independence .
- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Abigail Adams, pictured in , and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
- For the most part, women were excluded from the political realm, but a few women, such as Abigail Adams, entered the political arena as public figures.
- Describe how the ideal of "Republican Motherhood" restricted women from the public arena during the American Revolution
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- The policy proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis, keeping any one power from total control of the country, and calling upon all powers, within their spheres of influence, to refrain from interfering with any treaty port or any vested interest, to permit Chinese authorities to collect tariffs on an equal basis, and to show no favors to their own nationals in the matter of harbour dues or railroad charges.
- It felt threatened by other powers' much larger spheres of influence in China and worried that it might lose access to the Chinese market should the country be partitioned.
- Secretary of State John Hay sent notes to the major powers (France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia), asking them to declare formally that they would uphold Chinese territorial and administrative integrity and would not interfere with the free use of the treaty ports within their spheres of influence in China.
- The doctrine asserted that the New World and the Old World were to remain distinctly separate spheres of influence, for they were composed of entirely separate and independent nations.
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- Jackson said that he would guard against "all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of State sovereignty. " This is not to say that Jackson was a states' rights extremist; indeed, the Nullification Crisis would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.