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

by Nancy A. Hewitt

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801416167

ISBN13:9780801416163

Release Date:July 1984

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:282 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Activism Demography Feminist Theory Gay & Lesbian History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nonfiction Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local Women in History Women's Studies

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