Women and the Work of Benevolence : Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States
, by Lori D. GinzbergNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780300052541 | 0300052545
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 7/29/1992
In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines benevolent work performed by middle-and upper-middle-class American women from the 1820's to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's reform activism.