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A New Birth of Freedom: The Road to Civil War.
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A New Birth of Freedom: The Road to Civil War Although the leadership of reform movements of the 1840s and 1850s (temperance, abolitionism, social purity, and so on) was largely male, many of the members of reform organisations were women. Explain the significance of the preponderance of women in reform organisations. What was the relationship between gender and reform? Amidst a background of religious revival and polarisation of the sexes, women in America began to embrace reform organisations. The institutions of church and school fostered close relations among these educated middle class women. They nurtured a female culture where women could act, both privately and publicly on a value system increasingly at odds with those of the dominant male sex. The reform institutions gave women a way of defining themselves and the world around them, reshaping definitions of public and private, male and female. Traditionally women in America were regarded as wards of...
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