“Happy Housewives”: Sisters in the Struggle for Women’s Rights

Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award - Individual Non-Freshman, honorable mentionCitation: Wilson, E. (2016). “Happy Housewives”: Sisters in the Struggle for Women’s Rights. Unpublished manuscript, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.Dr. Charles Sanders““Happy Housewives”: Sisters in the Struggle for Women’s Rights” discusses social advancement from the perspective of an often unacknowledged group of people, the domestic and motherly “happy housewives”, who played a unique and unexpectedly important role in the progress of the Women’s Rights Movement in the 19th century. This paper argues that the women who prescribed to the ideology of separate spheres—that man had his place in society and woman had hers in the home—though often belittled, were essential to the progress of the Women’s Rights Movement. While outspoken suffragettes paraded the streets and outwardly protested for women’s rights, the “happy housewives” expanded women’s influence and societal distinction in subtle but significant ways that changed women’s role in the United States forever. Primary sources that support this claim include personal accounts and letters from “happy housewives”, sermons on the subject of women’s role in society, articles published in ladies’ magazines by and for the “happy housewives”, speeches, newspaper publications, cookbooks, and teachers’ guides

Photoaffinity Labeling of the Antimycin Binding Site in \u3cem\u3eRhodopseudomonas sphaeroides\u3c/em\u3e

The purpose of this study was to identify the site of interaction of antimycin with the ubiquinone-cytochrome b-c1 oxidoreductase in the photosynthetic bacteria, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. To accomplish this goal, three areas of research were undertaken: the synthesis of a radiolabeled, photoaffinity analog of antimycin, identification of the inhibitory characteristics of this analog, and the photoaffinity labeling of the antimycin binding site. All three areas were accomplished. The major finding of this study was the identification of an 11,000 dalton polypeptide as the predominantly labeled protein. Although this polypeptide was not exclusively labeled, it was consistently labeled and showed competition with antimycin. These results are consistent with a similar study performed by das Gupta and Rieske (1973) with a mitochondrial preparation. These results are not conclusive, but do show several interesting points. First, cytochrome b is not the only site of interaction of antimycin with the ubiquinone~cytochrome b-c1 region of the electron transport chain. Secondly, an 11,000 dalton polypeptide is an important component of this protein complex. The function of this polypeptide is unknown, but should provide interesting research for future studies

Housing Considerations of the Aged: Designing for Memory Loss

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