Publication

2010 - Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

72,500 words, Guess

Page Count

290 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780875804163
  • Open LibraryOL24574627M

Classifications

  • DDC323.092/273
  • LCCHQ1236.5.U6 P37 2010
  • LCCHQ1236.5.U6P37 2010

Description

This volume presents a study of six notable reformers, illuminating the connections between the gradual transformation of reform strategies over the course of the 19th century and the political ideas of the reformers themselves. The author argues that American women's political thought evolved from an emphasis on reform through moral persuasion and local control into an endorsement of expanded federal power and a strong central state. This book reveals Fanny Wright, Sarah Grimké, Angelina Grimké Weld, Frances Watkins Harper, Frances Willard, and Mary Church Terrell to be political thinkers who were engaged in re-conceptualizing the relationship between the state and its citizens.

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