Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer
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Dorothea Dix was the most politically engaged woman of her generation, which was itself a remarkable tapestry of activists. An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, she vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. Her greatest legislative initiative, a campaign for federal land grants to endow state mental hospitals, assumed a central role in the public land...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674214889
ISBN13:9780674214880
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"
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