Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Lori D. Ginzberg

Book Overview

In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines benevolent work performed by middle- and upper-middle-class American women from the 1820s to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's reform activism. "Ginzberg offers a carefully nuanced interpretation of antebellum women reformers. . . . [Her] determination to juxtapose issues usually studied in isolation could stand as a model for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300052545
• ISBN13: 9780300052541
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"