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- catalog abstract "Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups--Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, African American and white middle and working class--to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart. Boylan interweaves analyses of more than seventy organizations in New York and Boston with the stories of the women who founded and led them. In so doing, she provides a new understanding of how these groups actually worked and how women's associations, especially those with evangelical Protestant leanings, helped define the gender system of the new republic. She also demonstrates as never before how women in leadership positions combined volunteer work with their family responsibilities, how they raised and invested the money their organizations needed, and how they gained and used political influence in an era when women's citizenship rights were tightly circumscribed.".
- catalog contributor b12651708.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-329) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Patterns of organization -- Domesticity and organizational work -- Portraits of women organizers -- Politics -- Economies -- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups--Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, African American and white middle and working class--to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart. Boylan interweaves analyses of more than seventy organizations in New York and Boston with the stories of the women who founded and led them. In so doing, she provides a new understanding of how these groups actually worked and how women's associations, especially those with evangelical Protestant leanings, helped define the gender system of the new republic. She also demonstrates as never before how women in leadership positions combined volunteer work with their family responsibilities, how they raised and invested the money their organizations needed, and how they gained and used political influence in an era when women's citizenship rights were tightly circumscribed.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 343 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Origins of women's activism.".
- catalog identifier "0807827304 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807854042 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Origins of women's activism.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Origins of women's activism.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.4/06/073 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1904 .B69 2002".
- catalog subject "Women United States Societies and clubs History.".
- catalog subject "Women political activists United States History.".
- catalog subject "Women social reformers United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Patterns of organization -- Domesticity and organizational work -- Portraits of women organizers -- Politics -- Economies -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "The origins of women's activism : New York and Boston, 1797-1840 / Anne M. Boylan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".