This book examines the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Wright explores the appeal of moral reform, seeing it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and mobile society.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-07-26
Language: English
Number of Pages: 290
Edition: 1
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..