The politics of domesticity
Subtitle: women, evangelism, and temperance in nineteenth-century America
By: by Barbara Leslie Epstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn; Irvington, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Temperance -- History -- 19th century.; Women in Christianity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Revivals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- Church history.
Description: "This book traces the emergence of a popular women's consciousness of difference from, and antagonism to, men, developing through four phases of women's religious activity, from the mid eighteenth century through the late nineteenth century." -- Introduction.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [171]-181.
Includes index.