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100			_aBoylan Anne m. _917940
245			_aThe origins of womens activism : _bNew York and Boston, 1797-1840 / _cAnne M. Boylan
260			_aChapel Hill : _cc2002. _bThe University of North Carolina Press,
300			_axiv, 343 pages : _billusrations ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_aPatterns of organization Domesticity and organizational work Portraits of women organizers Politics Economies. Appendices. Women's organizations
520			_aTracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectrum of early nineteenth-century women's groups--Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, African American and white middle and working class--to illuminate the ways in which race, religion, and class could bring women together in pursuit of common goals or drive them apart. Boylan interweaves analyses of more than seventy organizations in New York and Boston with the stories of the women who founded and led them. In so doing, she provides a new understanding of how these groups actually worked and how women's associations, especially those with evangelical Protestant leanings, helped define the gender system of the new republic. She also demonstrates as never before how women in leadership positions combined volunteer work with their family responsibilities, how they raised and invested the money their organizations needed, and how they gained and used political influence in an era when women's citizenship rights were tightly circumscribed
650			_aWomen - United States _bSocieties and clubs _cHistory. _917941
650			_aWomen social reformers _bUnited States _cHistory. _917942
650			_aWomen political activists _bUnited States _cHistory. _917943
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
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