Title: Articulating rights
Description: This volume presents a study of six notable reformers, illuminating the connections between the gradual transformation of reform strategies over the course of the 19th century and the political ideas of the reformers themselves. The author argues that American women's political thought evolved from an emphasis on reform through moral persuasion and local control into an endorsement of expanded federal power and a strong central state. This book reveals Fanny Wright, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké Weld, Frances Watkins Harper, Frances Willard, and Mary Church Terrell to be political thinkers who were engaged in re-conceptualizing the relationship between the state and its citizens.
Subjects: Women political activists, Politics and government, Race relations, Social movements, Women social reformers, Intellectual life, Civil rights, Women, Federal government, Political activity, Social conditions, Political aspects, African Americans, Biography, History, Ethnische Beziehungen, Frauenbewegung, Staatslehre, Women, political activity, African americans, civil rights, Women, united states, biography, United states, politics and government, 19th century, United states, social conditions, United states, race relations
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century