Lawes, Carolyn J.,  1958- <br/><br/>
Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860 /Carolyn J. Lawes. 

 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (284 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Keeping the Faith; 2 Missionaries and More; 3 Maternal Politics; 4 ""Rachel Weeping for Her Children''; Illustrations; 5 From Feminism to Female Employment; Conclusion; Appendix: Statistical Data; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W. 
<br/><br/> Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that t. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813148182 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Children's Friend Society--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women political activists--History--Massachusetts--Worcester--19th century.<br/>Women social reformers--History--Massachusetts--Worcester--19th century.<br/>Women's rights--History--Massachusetts--Worcester--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1439  / .W664 2015