Dynes - Major Points - # 5

The thesis of my paper is: The structure of eighteenth-century boarding schools, like the one depicted in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Boarding School, became a major asset to women and how they formed lasting family bonds and homosocial relations with each other. It differs from other scholars due to the fact that few scholars actually link organizations of today to ones of yesterday. Though there are differences, boarding schools exist today through other institutions, like the sorority. Both institutions help women, especially young women, gain the friends they need in life.

This argument works well in the paper through my definition of familiar things, such as family, and what that particular definition brings to the paper. The only thing I would like to work on with the paper is including more information about sororities and how they resemble the boarding school. I like tying in old ideas with new, so that is there I would like to extend things.