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1 Online-Ressource (284 pages)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813148189
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9780813148182
Inhalt:
Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that t
Inhalt:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Keeping the Faith; 2 Missionaries and More; 3 Maternal Politics; 4 ""Rachel Weeping for Her Children''; Illustrations; 5 From Feminism to Female Employment; Conclusion; Appendix: Statistical Data; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813121314
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lawes, Carolyn J Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860 Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813121314
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Englisch
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