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Barbara Leslie Epstein. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown: Wesleyan University, 1981. 224 pp.

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Barbara Leslie Epstein. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. Middletown: Wesleyan University, 1981. 224 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Lori Ginzberg
Affiliation:
Yale University

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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1982

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NOTES

1. Cott, Nancy F., The Bonds of Womanhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)Google Scholar; Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973).Google Scholar See also, Cott, , “‘Passionlessness’: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850,” Signs, 4 (Winter, 1978), 219–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Faler, Paul, “Cultural Aspects of the Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts Shoemakers and Industrial Morality, 1826–1860,” Labor History, 15 (1974), 367–94CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dodd, Jill Siegel, “The Working Classes and the Temperance Movement in Ante-bellum Boston,” Labor History, 19 (Fall, 1978).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. See, for example, Berg, Barbara, The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism—The Woman and the City, 1800–1860 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).Google Scholar