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"The First of Causes to Our Sex" - The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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"The First of Causes to Our Sex" - The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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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