Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer

by Thomas J. Brown

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"