Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860 /

Women and reform in a New England community, 1815-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawes, Carolyn J., 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
Subjects:
Children's Friend Society > History.
Women social reformers > Massachusetts > Worcester > History > 19th century.
Women political activists > Massachusetts > Worcester > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > Massachusetts > Worcester > History > 19th century.
Worcester (Mass.) > History > 19th century > Sources.
Worcester (Mass.) > Social conditions.
Worcester (Mass.) > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • Keeping the faith: women's leadership in an orthodox congregational church
  • Missionaries and more: women, sewing, and the Antebellum sewing circle
  • Maternal politics: gender and the formation of the Worcester Children's Friend Society
  • "Rachel weeping for her children": mothers, children, and the Antebellum foster family
  • From feminism to female employment organized women in Worcester in the 1820s.