TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawes,Carolyn J.
TI  - Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860 /Carolyn J. Lawes
SN  - 9780813148182
AV  - HQ1439 .W664 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Children's Friend Society
KW  - History
KW  - Women political activists
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Worcester
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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