Reforming Men And Women
Subtitle: Gender in the Antebellum City
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801472886
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology, Social Studies; United States - 19th Century; History: American; History; History - General History; Pennsylvania; United States - Antebellum Era; Gender Studies; Social History; Sociology - Urban; 19th century; Philadelphia; Religion and social problems; Sex differences; Social reformers
First sentence: In December 1795, three weeks after a group of young white Quaker women led by Anne Parrish created the nation's first female charitable society in Philadelphia, John Marsillac, a Quaker physician, delivered to them a cautionary letter.