Women's Activism and Social Change

Rochester, New York, 1822–1872

Nancy A. Hewitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

1988
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-9509-0 (ISBN)

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In Women's Activism and Social Change, Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.

Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, and coauthor of Exploring American Histories: A Brief Survey with Sources.

Introduction1. Material and Moral Progress2. A Profusion of Pathways3. From Amelioration to Perfection4. Moral Crusades and Ultraist Alternatives5. Coalitions and Confrontations6. Union or Liberty7. Never Another Season of SilenceTables

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.1988
Zusatzinfo	22 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-8014-9509-1 / 0801495091
ISBN-13	978-0-8014-9509-0 / 9780801495090
Zustand	Neuware