Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York 1822-1872 - Couverture souple

Hewitt, Nancy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0739102974 ISBN 13 : 9780739102978

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2002

Synopsis

Women's Activism and Social Change 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, Nancy 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 communalism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739102974
• ISBN 13: 9780739102978
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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