The Limits of Sisterhood - The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere

Informationen zum Autor Jeanne Boydston, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic .|Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.|0 Klappentext In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way - Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate - devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.

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• Autori: Jeanne Boydston, Jeanne/ Kelley Boydston, Mary Kelley, Anne Margolis
• Editore: University Of North Carolina
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.1988
• EAN: 9780807842072
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4207-2
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Serie: Gender and American Culture (P; Gender and American Culture (P; Gender and American Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie