Social and Moral Reform

Nancy F. Cott

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9783598414718
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110971101
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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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