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Author: Massachusetts. State board of health, lunacy and charityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
First [-seventh] Annual Report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity [1879-1885]
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Author: Massachusetts. State board of health, lunacy and charityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Eighteenth Annual Report ... of the ... Society
Author: Children's Friend Society (WORCESTER)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and CharityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of CharityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Report
Author: Worcester Children's Friend Society, Worcester, MassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Annual Report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of CharityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Massachusetts. Board of State CharitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860
Author: Carolyn J. LawesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that they were at the center of community life and leadership. Drawing on rich local history collections, Lawes weaves together information from city and state documents, court cases, medical records, church collections, newspapers, and diaries and letters to create a portrait of a group of women for whom constant personal and social change was the norm. Throughout Women and Reform in a New England Community, conventional women make seemingly unconventional choices. A wealthy Worcester matron helped spark a women-led rebellion against ministerial authority in the town's orthodox Calvinist church. Similarly, a close look at the town's sewing circles reveals that they were vehicles for political exchange as well as social gatherings that included men but intentionally restricted them to a subordinate role. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the women of Worcester had taken up explicitly political and social causes, such as an orphan asylum they founded, funded, and directed. Lawes argues that economic and personal instability rather than a desire for social control motivated women, even relatively privileged ones, into social activism. She concludes that the local activism of the women of Worcester stimulated, and was stimulated by, their interest in the first two national women's rights conventions, held in Worcester in 1850 and 1851. Far from being marginalized from the vital economic, social, and political issues of their day, the women of this antebellum New England community insisted upon being active and ongoing participants in the debates and decisions of their society and nation.