Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822 1872

by Nancy A. Hewitt

Book Overview

In Women's Activism and Social Change , Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801416167
• ISBN13: 9780801416163
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher