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  Title

  Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860

  Author

  Lawes, Carolyn J., 1958-  

  Publisher:

  The University Press of Kentucky,

  Pub date:

  ©2015.

  Physical Description

  1 online resource (284 pages)

  ISBN:

  9780813148182

  Item info:

  1 copy available at MUT Main Lib..
  

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  Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860
  Lawes, Carolyn J., 1958-
  

  ISBN:

  9780813148182 (electronic bk.)

  ISBN:

  0813148189 (electronic bk.)

  Local system #:

  (OCoLC)900344751

  Dewey Decimal Classification Number:

  305.42/097443 23

  Personal Author:

  Lawes, Carolyn J., 1958-

  Title:

  Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860 / Carolyn J. Lawes.

  Publication info:

  Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.

  Physical descript:

  1 online resource (284 pages)

  Content Type:

  text txt

  Media carrier:

  computer c

  Carrier Type:

  online resource cr

  347:

  data file rda

  Contents:

  Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Keeping the Faith; 2 Missionaries and More; 3 Maternal Politics; 4 ""Rachel Weeping for Her Children''; Illustrations; 5 From Feminism to Female Employment; Conclusion; Appendix: Statistical Data; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W.

  Abstract/summary:

  Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that t.

  Corporate subject:

  Children's Friend Society--History.

  Subject term:

  Women political activists--Massachusetts--Worcester--History--19th century.

  Subject term:

  Women social reformers--Massachusetts--Worcester--History--19th century.

  Subject term:

  Women's rights--Massachusetts--Worcester--History--19th century.

  Geographic term:

  Worcester (Mass.)--History--19th century--Sources.

  Geographic term:

  Worcester (Mass.)--Politics and government.

  Geographic term:

  Worcester (Mass.)--Social conditions.

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