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

Hewitt, Nancy A.

ISBN 10: 0801495091 / ISBN 13: 9780801495090

Published by Cornell University Press, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822?1872
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801495091
• ISBN 13: 9780801495090
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s–1920s, and coauthor of Exploring American Histories: A Brief Survey with Sources.