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"The First of Causes to Our Sex" - The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848 (Paperback)
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"The First of Causes to Our Sex" - The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in
the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral
reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice
and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence
among the young as they entered the marriage market. The movement
has earned a place in U.S. women's history, but most research has
focused on it as an urban phenomenon, and sought its significance
in relation to the cause of women's rights or to the regulation of
prostitution. This study explores the appeal of moral reform to
rural women, who were the vast majority of its constituency, and
sees it as a response to seminal changes in family formation and
family size in the context of an increasingly market-oriented and
mobile society. It was led by Yankee women who were fired by Second
Great Awakening revivals and supported by reformist clergy.
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