E-book
Social and Moral Reform.
Record details
- ISBN: 9783110971101
- ISBN: 3110971100
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (390 pages).
remote - Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : K.G. Saur, [2012]
- Copyright: ©1994
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Social and Moral Reform -- Beauty, the Beast and the Militant Woman: A Case Study in Sex Roles and Social Stress in Jacksonian America -- The Power of Women's Networks: A Case Study of Female Moral Reform in Antebellum America -- The Forten-Purvis Women of Philadelphia and the American Anti-Slavery Crusade -- Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America -- The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy among American Women -- Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 -- Women and Temperance in Antebellum America, 1830-1860 -- The Yankee Schoolmarm in Freedmen's Schools: An Analysis of Attitudes -- Women Who Were More Than Men: Sex and Status in Freedmen's Teaching -- Yankee Schoolmarms and the Domestication of the South -- The Charitable and the Poor: The Emergence of Domestic Politics in Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1880 -- "The Ladies Want to Bring about Reform in the Public Schools": Public Education and Women's Rights in the Post-Civil War South -- Temperance, Benevolence, and the City: The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1900 -- Their Sisters' Keepers: An Historical Perspective on Female Correctional Institutions in the United States: 1870-1900 -- The "New Woman" in the New South -- Feminism and Temperance Reform in the Boulder WCTU -- Cultural Hybrid in the Slums: The College Woman and the Settlement House, 1889-1894 -- Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman -- Domesticating the Nineteenth-Century American City -- Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870-1930. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
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| Subject: | Women -- United States -- Social conditions Social change -- United States Women -- United States -- History United States -- Moral conditions |
| Genre: | Electronic books. History. |
