#  MHS: "Let it be your resolution to be happy": Women's Emotion Work in the Early Republic 

 



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 **October 23, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA**  



 

 



 

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 **Laura McCoy,** Northwestern University

 Tasked with maintaining the comfort and happiness of their families even in the face of adversity, many middling- and upper-class women in the early-nineteenth century saw expressing and managing emotions as the foundation of their daily labors. This talk explores the everyday realities of this emotion work and helps us understand women’s actions and self-perceptions—as well as wider familial and social dynamics—in the early republic.

 

 

 



 

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