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Explores the tensions within the feminist movement through the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society of the late nineteenth centurySynopsis
Explores the tensions within the feminist movement through the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society of the late nineteenth century
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In this work, Hansen demonstrates that many of the class, religious, and sociocultural differences that limit female solidarity today were evident more than a century ago. Antebellum Boston is the setting for this study of the conflicted and short-lived (1833-40) Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. This book (based on Hansen's dissertation) contributes respectably to studies of women's divergent views of their roles as women and as reformers. It examines the socioeconomic climate in which women of various classes lived at the time and takes apart the membership of the antislavery society. This book is appropriate for undergraduate/graduate history and women's studies collections. Recent related titles include Jean Fagan Yellin's Women and Sisters (Yale Univ. Pr., 1989) and Shirley J. Yee's Black Women Abolitionists ( LJ 3/15/92).-- Linda Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville