Just a century ago the experience of women compared to men was extremely different: many of them did not have access to education, nor did they have a political voice. Ellen Gruber Garvey, a professor in the English Department at New Jersey City University who teaches Women's and Gender Studies, says that in the last century, women living in rural areas faced more challenges than women living in cities, because they were the more she did domestic work on the farm. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), American author, in her story "The Revolt of Mother" (1890) describes the life of Sarah Penn, an obedient wife and mother of two children, on the farm in rural New England. The plot of the story presents a snapshot of the protagonists' lives forty years after the beginning of their marriage. The climax of the story comes when Adoniram Penn, Sarah's husband, leaves the farm for a few days, and Sarah, exhausted by the dilapidated house in which they have resided for forty years, decides to move her hearth and home to the new "beautiful building." . ” on their property, another livestock barn recently built by Adoniram. Her radical decision, taken without any confirmation from her husband, evokes the greatest reaction from the people of the village. Based on Freemans representations in the story of the domestic condition in which Sarah lived, as well as the promise of a new home that her husband made forty years ago, she justifies her act of revolt. However, “The Revolt of Mother” is not the story of a personal revolt: through the character of a mother, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman illustrates women's battle against their impotence in patriarchal society, as well as an example of an emergency of “family accompanied". model” instead of the “patriarchal family model”....... at the center of the article ......links and industrial societies. Works Cited Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. “Mother's Revolt” Tarleton State U. nd Web. May 29, 2014.Garvey, Ellen Gruber. “Less Work for the “Mother”: Rural Readers, Farm Documents, and the Restyling of “Mother's Revolt.” Legacy 26.1 (2009): 119-135. Network. June 11, 2014. Hirsch, Marianne. The Mother/Daughter Plot : fiction, psychoanalysis, feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Print.Johnson, Miriam M. Strong Mothers, Weak Wives: The Quest for Gender Equality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Print.Kellog, Susan and Steven Mintz. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: The Free Press, 1988. Print.Theriot, Nancy M. Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century America: The Biosocial Construction of Womanhood University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Print.