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Article: Reforming Men & Women: Gender in the Antebellum City.(Reviews)(Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2004
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Reforming Men & Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. By Bruce Dorsey (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 299, notes, index).
Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Elaine Frantz Parsons (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 241, notes, essay on sources, index).
Historians have extensively documented the connections between notions of femininity in general and women's rights in particular and many nineteenth-century reform movements, such as anti-slavery or temperance, for example. Yet, attempts to broaden this approach to a history of gender have been ...