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The Appeal of Female Moral Reform, 1835-1841, Abstract
What Was the Appeal of Moral Reform to
Antebellum Northern Women, 1835-1841?
Abstract
During the 1830s and 1840s, middle-class women in New England and the
Middle Atlantic states organized Female Moral Reform societies in order to attack
the sexual double standard. The documents in this project, drawn largely from
moral reform newspapers published in New York and Boston, examine the appeal
and tactics of the movement, arguably the first social movement in the United
States to be led by and consist largely of women.
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