The Moral Frameworks of Public Life: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930

by Paula Baker

This book explores the connections between gender and public life and the role of government in shaping those connections. Baker examines the public and private lives of men and women in New York State to provide a richly detailed account of the ways in which gender, politics, and government have shaped one anothers' future. She delineates widely held beliefs about religion, change, and work in the late nineteenth century and shows how men and women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064526
• ISBN13: 9780195064520
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"