Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood

by Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel and Marilyn S. Blackwell

Clarina Howard Nichols was one of America's pioneering social reformers. From Vermont to Kansas to California, she forged a political role for women by using her stature as a lady and a mother to lobby vigorously for women's rights, antislavery, and temperance. After joining the antislavery migration to Kansas, Nichols championed freedom in the territory, assisted former slaves, and argued successfully for women's school suffrage before ending her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617280
• ISBN13: 9780700617289
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"