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Catharine Beecher: a study in American domesticity

Kathryn Kish Sklar c1973 © Kathryn Kish Sklar
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  • 9780300015805 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page xi)
  • Part I: A Calvinist Girlhood, 1800-1823
    • 1. His Powerful Influence, 1800-1809 (page 3)
    • 2. Sociality, 1809-1821 (page 15)
    • 3. Handling Edge-Tools, 1821-1822 (page 28)
    • 4. Brow of Iron, 1823 (page 43)
  • Part II: Career Beginnings, 1823-1831
    • 5. A Source of Earthly Good, 1823-1829 (page 59)
    • 6. The Rule of Rectitude, 1829-1831 (page 78)
    • 7. Modes of Moral Influence, 1829-1831 (page 90)
  • Part III: Achievement and Retrenchment, 1832-1843
    • 8. So Fair a Prospect, 1832-1835 (page 107)
    • 9. The Storms of Democratic Liberty, 1835-1837 (page 122)
    • 10. Pretty Thoroughly Metaphysicated, 1837-1843 (page 138)
  • Part IV: Nation-Building, 1843-1856
    • 11. The Building of a Glorious Temple, 1843 (page 151)
    • 12. Education at the West, 1843-1847 (page 168)
    • 13. An Outgoing of Heart, 1847-1850 (page 184)
    • 14. Protective Customs, 1855 (page 204)
    • 15. A Kind of Lady Abbess, 1849-1856 (page 217)
  • Part V: Resolution and Retirement, 1850-1878
    • 16. The Intimacy and Familiarity of Sisterhood, 1850-1857 (page 229)
    • 17. The Grand Law of the System, 1857-1864 (page 244)
    • 18. A Trunk without a Label, 1864-1878 (page 258)
  • Notes (page 277)
  • Bibliography (page 331)
  • Index (page 345)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 5.4 (Spring 1975): 761-763 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28197521%295%3A4%3C761%3ACBASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JAH 61.1 (June 1974): 185-187 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28197406%2961%3A1%3C185%3ACBASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
AHR 79.4 (Oct. 1974): 1263-1264 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197410%2979%3A4%3C1263%3ACBASIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
HEQ 15.2 (Summer 1975): 213-217 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680%28197522%2915%3A2%3C213%3AWAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
HTE 8.2 (Feb. 1975): 326-328 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2745%28197502%298%3A2%3C326%3AMWAB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
RAH 2.2 (June 1974): 237-242 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28197406%292%3A2%3C237%3ASRASC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
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