The First of Causes to Our Sex
The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
Published on 12. September 2006
290 pages
978-1-135-52428-9 (ISBN)
Description
The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered the marriage market. The movement has earned a place in U.S. women's history, but most research has focused on it as an urban phenomenon, and sought its significance in relation to the cause of women's rights or to the regulation of prostitution. This study explores the appeal of moral reform to rural women, who were the vast majority of its constituency, and sees it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and mobile society. It was led by Yankee women who were fired by Second Great Awakening revivals and supported by reformist clergy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 Illustrations, black and white
File size
5,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-52428-9 (9781135524289)
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Daniel S. Wright
The First of Causes to Our Sex
The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
Book
07/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€79.51
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Daniel S. Wright
The First of Causes to Our Sex
The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
Book
09/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€215.77
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Daniel S. Wright
Content
1. The Feminization of Moral Reform 2. Ecclesiastical and Religious Background 3. The Social and Cultural Context 4. The Logical Context of Moral Reform: Family, Class, Politics 5. A Feminized Argument and Program 6. Legislating Moral Reform
