THE LIMITS OF SISTERHOOD; The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere

Jeanne Boydston & Mary Kelley & Anne Margolis

ISBN 10: 0807842079 / ISBN 13: 9780807842072

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina, 1991

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Very Good+ in wraps.; Gender And American Culture; 9.1 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 396 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LIMITS OF SISTERHOOD; The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807842079
• ISBN 13: 9780807842072
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Jeanne Boydston, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic.

Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

Anne Margolis, formerly assistant professor of English and American studies at Williams College, has edited the papers of Isabella Beecher Hooker and is currently a student at Western New England College School of Law.