Social and Moral Reform.

Social and Moral Reform. - 1 online resource (390 pages). - History of Women in the United States ; Volume 17/1 .

Frontmatter -- 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.

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