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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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The Worcester Almanac, Directory and Business Advertiser
Author: 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.
The Worcester Directory
Author: Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860
Author: Dorothea N. SpearPublisher: Worcester, Ma. : American Antiquarian Society
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Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
Author: Nancy IsenbergPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state, and family. In addition, Isenberg shows, they developed a rich theoretical tradition that influenced not only subsequent strains of feminist thought but also ideas about the nature of citizenship and rights more generally. By focusing on rights discourse and political theory, Isenberg moves beyond a narrow focus on suffrage. Democracy was in the process of being redefined in antebellum America by controversies over such volatile topics as fugitive slave laws, temperance, Sabbath laws, capital punishment, prostitution, the Mexican War, married women's property rights, and labor reform--all of which raised significant legal and constitutional questions. These pressing concerns, debated in women's rights conventions and the popular press, were inseparable from the gendered meaning of nineteenth-century citizenship.
A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Map DivisionPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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A List of Maps of America in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Maps and ChartsPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. SenatePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Early American Gunsmiths, 1650-1850
Author: Henry J. KauffmanPublisher:
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Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Alphabetical list of gunsmiths, with brief data on each.
The Heart of the Commonwealth, Or, Worcester as it is
Author: Henry Jenkins HowlandPublisher:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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