History of women in the United States. 17. Part 1, Social and Moral Reform : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 17/1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich : K. G Saur, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Social and Moral Reform".

Contents:

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 / ROSENBERG, CARROLL SMITH

The Power of Women's Networks: A Case Study of Female Moral Reform in Antebellum America / RYAN, MARY P.

The Forten-Purvis Women of Philadelphia and the American Anti-Slavery Crusade / SUMLER-LEWIS, JANICE

Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America / MATTHEWS, JEAN

The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy among American Women / DANNENBAUM, JED

Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850-1860 / STANSELL, CHRISTINE

Women and Temperance in Antebellum America, 1830-1860 / TYRRELL, IAN R.

The Yankee Schoolmarm in Freedmen's Schools: An Analysis of Attitudes / SMALL, SANDRA E.

Women Who Were More Than Men: Sex and Status in Freedmen's Teaching / JONES, JACQUELINE

Yankee Schoolmarms and the Domestication of the South / HOFFERT, SYLVIA D.

The Charitable and the Poor: The Emergence of Domestic Politics in Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1880 / WHITES, LEEANN

"The Ladies Want to Bring about Reform in the Public Schools": Public Education and Women's Rights in the Post-Civil War South / BERKELEY, KATHLEEN C.

Temperance, Benevolence, and the City: The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1900 / MORTON, MARIAN J.

Their Sisters' Keepers: An Historical Perspective on Female Correctional Institutions in the United States: 1870-1900 / FREEDMAN, ESTELLE Β.

The "New Woman" in the New South / SCOTT, ANNE FIROR

Feminism and Temperance Reform in the Boulder WCTU / HARRIS, KATHERINE

Cultural Hybrid in the Slums: The College Woman and the Settlement House, 1889-1894 / ROUSMANIERE, JOHN P.

Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman / COOK, BLANCHE WIESEN

Domesticating the Nineteenth-Century American City / WORTMAN, MARLENE STEIN

Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870-1930 / CONWAY, JILL

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110971101

3110971100

OCLC:

979851562