History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 17/1, : Social and Moral Reform / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]
©1994
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:History of Women in the United States ; Volume 17/1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • 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