The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere

By Jeanne Boydston and Mary Kelley

Book Overview

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate--devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807817686
• ISBN13: 9780807817681
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.