The remembered gate
Subtitle: origins of American feminism : the woman and the city, 1800-1860
By: Barbara J. Berg.
Series: The Urban life in America series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Feminism -- United States -- History; Urbanization -- United States -- History; Women -- United States -- History; Women -- United States -- Social conditions
Description: "Chronicle of the beginning of woman's emancipation ... Dr. Berg finds its roots in the complex responses to intricate social change that accompanied the urbanization of America, maintaining that the rise of the industrial city precipitated the subordination of women ... Thus women fell victim to the 'woman-belle ideal'--Cover.
Notes: Includes index. *** Bibliography: p. 297-323.

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