{"product_id":"women-in-antebellum-reform-isbn-9780882959511","title":"Women in Antebellum Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a soul-stirring era,\" remarked the Reverend William Mitchell in 1835, \"and will be so recorded in the annals of time.\" Countless antebellum reformers agreed. The United States was awash in efforts to change itself, a \"sisterhood of reforms\" emerging to characterize the efforts of hundreds of thousands of Americans. In all of this, women played an important role.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn her latest publication, Professor Ginzberg offers a view of women and antebellum reform through two lenses: one focused on the ideas about women, religion, class, and race that shaped reform movements; and another that observes actual women as they participated in the work of social change. For women, a commitment to reform offered a broader sense of their place in the world-and of their responsibility to set it aright. By considering the efforts of these women-distributing bibles, tracts, and charity, fighting intemperance, opposing slavery, or demanding their rights as women-the reader gains a richer understanding of the antebellum era itself.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eForeword v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One. The Roots of Reform 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Changing Society 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Woman’s Sphere 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two. Charity and the Relations of Class 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Worthy Poor 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale Benevolence 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizing the Work 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelping One’s Own 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three. Drink, Sex, Crime, and Insanity 33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTemperance 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Reform 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrison Reform 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Care of the Insane 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuildings and Ballots 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four. Antislavery 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of Antislavery 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Moral Problem of Slavery 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntislavery Efforts 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponse from the Opposition 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife as an Abolitionist 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five. Woman’s Rights 90\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoads Not Taken 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformers and the Woman Question 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Declaration of Sentiments 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliographical Essay 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustrations and Photographs follow page 80\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori D. Ginzberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States,\u003c\/i\u003e which was co-winner of the 1991 National Historical Society’s Book Prize in American History. She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century women’s political and intellectual history, including “’Pernicious Heresies’: Women’s Political Identities and Sexual Respectability in the Nineteenth Century,”  in Alison Parker and Stephanie Cole, eds., \u003ci\u003eWomen and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America,\u003c\/i\u003e and “’The Hearts of Your Readers will Shudder’: Fanny Wright, Infidelity, and American Freethought,” \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e 46, which won the Constance Rourke prize. In 1995-96 she was a Fulbright senior teaching fellow at the Hebrew university in Jerusalem. Lori Ginzberg lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The writing is clear and lively and the interpretation engaging and sophisticated. Ginzberg brings a wide array of individuals, events, and movements to life and provides particularly insightful discussions of class and racial differences within antebellum society and antebellum reform.\"\u003cbr\u003e –Nancy A. Hewitt, Rutgers University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990502195429,"sku":"NP9780882959511","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780882959511.jpg?v=1761788084","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/women-in-antebellum-reform-isbn-9780882959511","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}