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The First of Causes to Our Sex: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848 (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) - Softcover

Book 14 of 66: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Wright, Daniel S. S.

 
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Synopsis

This book examines the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Wright explores the appeal of moral reform, seeing it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and mobile society.

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Daniel S. Wright

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