This study examines cases of fornication, bastardy, and paternity cases brought before the courts in Essex County, Massachusetts between and Prosecution and conviction rates, sentencing patterns, and socio-economic data, as well as attitudes, were analyzed to determine that women who….
The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city; and is significant today if one desires a more accurate and inclusive….
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: By Linda Joyce Brown. This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century. By Gail Fowler Mohanty.
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study.
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture, job market, dating marketplace, prospective marriage prospects, and college campuses by using…. By Patti Clayton Becker. World War II presented America's public libraries with the daunting challenge of meeting new demands for war-related library services and materials with Depression-weakened collections, inadequate budgets and demoralized staff, in addition to continuing to serve the library's traditional clientele….
Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable…. The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered….
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the Primitive Baptists with other developments in American Christianity in the Early Republic. By Amy Dunham Strand. Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by….
By Mary McCartin Wearn. Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role — an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century. Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation….
By Janice Ruth Wood. Passed in , the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the…. By Holly Berkley Fletcher.
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement.
Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and…. Perrine First published in Automobility and Social Change in the South, By Corey Leisseig This book investigates the opportunities the automobile presented for early twentieth Mississippians to change their patterns of work and leisure.
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As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional… Paperback — Routledge Studies in American Popular History and Culture. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer… Paperback — Routledge Studies in American Popular History and Culture.
Archer Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist… Paperback — Routledge Studies in American Popular History and Culture.
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