History of Women in the United States: Volume 17/1 Social and Moral Reform

• Publisher: K. G. Saur
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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