Women and the work of benevolence : morality, politics, and class in the nineteenth-century United States /

Women and the work of benevolence : morality, politics, and class in the nineteenth-century United States / Lori D. Ginzberg.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ginzberg, Lori D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990]
Series:Yale historical publications (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Women social reformers > United States > History > 19th century.
Women in charitable work > United States > History > 19th century.
Middle class women > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Moral conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • "Her strongest moral organ"
  • The business of benevolence.
  • "Hot conflict with the political demon"
  • "Moral suasion is moral balderdash"
  • A passion for efficiency.
  • "The moral eye of the state."

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