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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bacon, Margaret Hope
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Series:SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Subjects:
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, > 1801-1893.
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, > 1801-1893
Prison reformers > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Quaker women > United States > Biography.
Réformateurs de prison > États-Unis > Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Quakeresses > États-Unis > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Prison reformers.
Quaker women.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Biographies.
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."

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