Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women / edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi.
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial America...
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Table of Contents:
- Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey
- Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America / Lori Merish
- "Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as a model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction / Mary Templin
- Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel / Whitney A. Womack
- "The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" / Debra Bernardi
- Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert
- "Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's motherly benevolence / Jill Bergman
- Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak
- "To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum / Sarah E. Chinn
- Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" / James Salazar.