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Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women /

Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial America...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bergman, Jill, 1963-, Bernardi, Debra, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005.
Colección:Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey
  • Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America / Lori Merish
  • "Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as a model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction / Mary Templin
  • Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel / Whitney A. Womack
  • "The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" / Debra Bernardi
  • Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert
  • "Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's motherly benevolence / Jill Bergman
  • Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak
  • "To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum / Sarah E. Chinn
  • Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" / James Salazar.