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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, Jeanne/ Kelley Boydston, Anne Margolis
• Editore: University Of North Carolina
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.04.1988
• Categoria: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780807842072
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4207-2
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.2 x 23.5 x 3.2 cm
• Serie: Gender and American Culture (P; Gender and American Culture (P; Gender and American Culture