Women in Antebellum Reform

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: L.D Ginzberg, Lori D Ginzberg, Lori D. Ginzberg, Lori D. (Pennsylvania State University) Ginzberg, Ginzberg Lori D.
• Edition: Wiley
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780882959511
• ISBN: 978-0-88295-951-1
• Pages: 168
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Poids: 191 g
• Thèmes: The American History Series; American History S.; The American History Series; American History
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Civics and citizenship