Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City

by Bruce Dorsey

Book Overview

Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class.Urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801472881
• ISBN13: 9780801472886
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher