The Limits of Sisterhood

by Boydston, Jeanne; Kelley, Mary; Margoliz, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780807817681
• ISBN10: 0807817686
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and author of advice literature; Harriet as author of novels, tales, and sketches; and Isabella as a women's rights advocate--devoted much of her adult life to elevating women's status and expanding women's influence.

Table of Contents

Gender & American Culture	p. ii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Chronology	p. xv
The Limits of Sisterhood	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
Shaping Experience	p. 11
"The Distinguishing Characteristics of My Own Mind"	p. 13
Harriet Beecher Stowe: "Changing to Nobody Knows Who"	p. 47
Isabella Beecher Hooker: "A Tread Mill of Self Analysis"	p. 80
The Power of Womanhood	p. 113
Catharine Esther Beecher: "A Power and Station and Influence"	p. 114
Harriet Beecher Stowe: "My Heart's Blood"	p. 155
Isabella Beecher Hooker: "The Cause Dearer to Me Than Any Other in the World"	p. 184
The Politics of Sisterhood	p. 223
Catharine Esther Beecher: "Her Aegis of Defence"	p. 225
Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The Woman Controversy"	p. 258
Isabella Beecher Hooker: "The Lips of Women Are Being Unsealed"	p. 292
Conversations Among Ourselves	p. 333
Conversations among Ourselves	p. 335
Index	p. 359
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