This work offers a view of women and antebellum reform from two perspectives. The first focuses on issues of women, religion, class and race that shaped reform movements. The second explores the actual work of women as they participated in social change.
This work offers a view of women and antebellum reform from two perspectives. The first focuses on issues of women, religion, class and race that shaped reform movements. The second explores the actual work of women as they participated in social change.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lori D. Ginzberg is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States, which was co-winner of the 1991 National Historical Society's Book Prize in American History. She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century women's political and intellectual history, including "'Pernicious Heresies': Women's Political Identities and Sexual Respectability in the Nineteenth Century," in Alison Parker and Stephanie Cole, eds., Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America, and "'The Hearts of Your Readers will Shudder': Fanny Wright, Infidelity, and American Freethought," American Quarterly 46, which won the Constance Rourke prize. In 1995-96 she was a Fulbright senior teaching fellow at the Hebrew university in Jerusalem. Lori Ginzberg lives in Philadelphia.
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Foreword v Preface ix Chapter One. The Roots of Reform 1 A Changing Society 3 A Woman's Sphere 8 Chapter Two. Charity and the Relations of Class 15 The Worthy Poor 16 Female Benevolence 18 Organizing the Work 22 Helping One's Own 29 Chapter Three. Drink, Sex, Crime, and Insanity 33 Temperance 33 Moral Reform 39 Prison Reform 44 The Care of the Insane 48 Buildings and Ballots 51 Chapter Four. Antislavery 57 The Origins of Antislavery 60 The Moral Problem of Slavery 64 Antislavery Efforts 70 Response from the Opposition 74 Life as an Abolitionist 81 Chapter Five. Woman's Rights 90 Roads Not Taken 91 Reformers and the Woman Question 97 The Declaration of Sentiments 105 The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement 110 Conclusion 118 Bibliographical Essay 122 Index 137 Illustrations and Photographs follow page 80
Foreword v Preface ix Chapter One. The Roots of Reform 1 A Changing Society 3 A Woman's Sphere 8 Chapter Two. Charity and the Relations of Class 15 The Worthy Poor 16 Female Benevolence 18 Organizing the Work 22 Helping One's Own 29 Chapter Three. Drink, Sex, Crime, and Insanity 33 Temperance 33 Moral Reform 39 Prison Reform 44 The Care of the Insane 48 Buildings and Ballots 51 Chapter Four. Antislavery 57 The Origins of Antislavery 60 The Moral Problem of Slavery 64 Antislavery Efforts 70 Response from the Opposition 74 Life as an Abolitionist 81 Chapter Five. Woman's Rights 90 Roads Not Taken 91 Reformers and the Woman Question 97 The Declaration of Sentiments 105 The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement 110 Conclusion 118 Bibliographical Essay 122 Index 137 Illustrations and Photographs follow page 80
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