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The origins of women's activism : New York and Boston, 1797-1840 /
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 Ame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | UNC Press law publications.
Women and the law. New York legal research library. Civil rights and social justice. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Patterns of organization
- Domesticity and organizational work
- Portraits of women organizers
- Politics
- Economies. Appendices. Women's organizations
- Tables: Religious affiliations of officers in selected organizations
- Membership in organizational networks
- Patterns of leadership
- Occupations of household heads among leaders of selected organizations
- Percentages of married and single officers in selected organizations
- Distribution of ages at which women joined selected organizations, 1797-1840
- Percentage of officers in selected organizations under age 40 at time of joining and median ages of officers and founders
- Number of organizational affiliations per married woman by number of children borne
- Creation of male advisory boards
- Women leaders' connections to the world of print
- Yearly budgets of selected women's organizations
- Sample annual budgets of organizations
- Number of annual subscribers and subscription income in selected organizations
- Creation of organizations' permanent funds and growth of Boston Female Asylum permanent fund.