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

Publication Info.	Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015]
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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.
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.
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Subject	Children's Friend Society -- History.
	Children's Friend Society.
	History.
	Women political activists -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- 19th century.
	Women political activists.
	Massachusetts -- Worcester.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Women social reformers -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- 19th century.
	Women social reformers.
	Women's rights -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- 19th century.
	Women's rights.
	Worcester (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
	Worcester (Mass.) -- Politics and government.
	Worcester (Mass.) -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Sources.
Other Form:	Print version: Lawes, Carolyn J. Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813121314
ISBN	9780813148182 (electronic book)
	0813148189 (electronic book)

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

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