Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

By Debra Gold Hansen

Explores the origins of the feminist equality-versus-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. Hansen concludes that many of the issues that estranged abolitionists in antebellum Boston continue to divide women today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238485
• ISBN13: 9780870238482
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"