Abby Hopper Gibbons : prison reformer and social activist /
"This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-century American social activist and prison reformer Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) illuminates women's changing role in the various reform movements of the period. Beginning as an abolitionist/feminist, Gibbons helped to found the Women...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©2000.
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Series: | SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Her Father's Daughter
- The Abolitionist/Feminists
- The Woman Question
- Our Imprisoned Sisters
- "Losses and Crosses"
- "The Calls of Humanity"
- "Take the News to Mother"
- The Draft Riots
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again"
- An Advocate for Women
- "A Reformatory, Pure and Simple."