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Article: "The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848.(Book review)
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- June 1, 2008
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"The First of Causes to Our Sex": The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848. By Daniel S. Wright. Studies in American Popular History and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. xii + 279 pp. $110.00 cloth.
Daniel Wright's study on the female reform movement, whose membership reached approximately 45,000 in over six hundred societies across rural New England, the mid-Atlantic states, and the upper Midwest, complements two decades of previous studies on this significant, female-centered movement. Noting at the outset the contributions of prior studies by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Barbara Berg, Nancy Hewitt, Mary Ryan, Nancy Cott, and ...