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The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
By Jeanne Boydston, Mary Kelley, Anne Margolis
400 pages
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- University of North Carolina Press
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In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's ...
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.
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Table of contents
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- GENDER & AMERICAN CULTURE ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Chronology xv
- Contents xxi
- The Limits of Sisterhood xxv
- I - Introduction 1
- 1 - Shaping Experience 11
- 2 - "The Distinguishing Characteristics of My Own Mind" 13
- 3 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: "Changing to Nobody Knows Who" 47
- 4 - Isabella Beecher Hooker: "A Tread Mill of Self Analysis" 80
- II. The Power of Womanhood 113
- 5 - Catharine Esther Beecher: "A Power and Station and Influence" 114
- 6 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: "My Heart's Blood" 155
- GENDER & AMERICAN CULTURE ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Chronology xv
- Contents xxi
- The Limits of Sisterhood xxv
- I - Introduction 1
- 1 - Shaping Experience 11
- 2 - "The Distinguishing Characteristics of My Own Mind" 13
- 3 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: "Changing to Nobody Knows Who" 47
- 4 - Isabella Beecher Hooker: "A Tread Mill of Self Analysis" 80
- II. The Power of Womanhood 113
- 5 - Catharine Esther Beecher: "A Power and Station and Influence" 114
- 6 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: "My Heart's Blood" 155
- 7 - Isabella Beecher Hooker: "The Cause Dearer to Me Than Any Other in the World" 184
- III. The Politics of Sisterhood 223
- 8 - Catharine Esther Beecher: "Her Aegis of Defence" 225
- 9 - Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The Woman Controversy" 258
- 10. Isabella Beecher Hooker: - "The Lips of Women Are Being Unsealed" 292
- IV. Conversations Among Ourselves 333
- II. - Conversations among Ourselves 335
- Index 359