Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822 1872

By Nancy A. Hewitt

Book Overview

In Women's Activism and Social Change , Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801495091
• ISBN13: 9780801495090
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher