The Limits of Sisterhood

Jeanne Boydston, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is author of Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic.
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Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Anne Margolis, formerly assistant professor of English and American studies at Williams College, has edited the papers of Isabella Beecher Hooker and is currently a student at Western New England College School of Law.
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"A sophisticated blend of the authors' analysis of the 19th-century debate over women's rights and the letters of Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker. . . . The introductory essays for each section do draw upon the latest scholarship and enhance the usefulness of the book for student and scholar."--Choice

"A fascinating account of the three Beecher sisters, participants in the debate concerning women's rights that emerged in the wake of the Civil War. As the authors deftly demonstrate, the siblings influenced each other throughout their lives, and shared a commitment to female power, although their visions often differed."--Publishers Weekly