Post #2 Pre-Investigation

The woman I have chosen to write about and use her letters as a primary source is Catharine Beecher. The primary source I have chosen are particular letters from Letters to the American People on Health and Happiness. These posts have a main subject of women. She tells of unhealthy things that she sees being done with women and explain why they are bad or unhealthy. She shows a sense of worry for women, especially for the things she sees wrong about sexual exploitation. Catharine Beecher essentially just wants women to have a right and sense of fairness, and she wants her voice to be heard in doing so.















1. This primary source seems to be about Catharine Beecher has traveled around and talked to many different women about the problems she sees in their society with their health. There are letters written about how some women dress in a way that is unhealthy to them and their bodies. There are also letters written about how she surveyed women about how healthy they are, then explained what exactly was healthy. She explained that there were few women who had the best health that could be had, as many women grew tired and sick throughout the days.



2. Catharine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote this primary source. I believe that her motivation was that she was seeing so much sickness in women. She wanted to test and find out what exactly was making women this way, and what could possibly be done to change these things. She was seeing women parading around in skimpy clothing that constrained them to a point of moving their organs around. She saw so many things wrong and she wanted to tell people of the things she was seeing.



3. The context seems to be similar to why the primary source was written. Catharine Beecher was seeing many things that were detrimental to women and she wanted women to see what things were detrimental and WHY they were detrimental. She wanted her voice to be heard even though in those time, women had very little say in things, which was actually one of the reasons for unhealthy women...their voices were not heard.

Post One: Primary Source

http://www1.assumption.edu/WHW/Hatch/Beecher/BeecherLettersonHealth.html This is the primary source I have chosen to use. This has letters that Catharine Beecher wrote about Women and their health.