Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Lori D. Ginzberg

Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Lori D. Ginzberg

256 pages • first pub 1990 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric—especially in the antebellum years—proclaimed that virtue was more pronounced in women than in men and praised women for their benevolent influen...

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