num_pages: 292
description: Women's Activism and Social Change challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Nancy Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communalism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.
language: English
title: Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York 1822-1872
titlecomplete: Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York 1822-1872
genres: History
ratings_count: 8
places: Rochester, New York
publisher: Lexington Books