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Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822 1872

Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822 1872

Hewitt, Nancy A.

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General World HistoryRegional: Middle AtlanticWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0801495091
ISBN13: 9780801495090
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jan 28 1988
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

In Women's Activism and Social Change, Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.

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