| Description |
xiv, 270 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : on beginning to tell a "best-kept secret" -- Weaving the delicate web : Lucretia Mott and succeeding generations -- Paving the way : the "miraculous era" in communication and the "unprotected female" -- The ironies of Pentecost : women religious and evangelistic outreach -- Unwitting allies : Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sand, and the power of literary celebrity -- A developing consciousness : revolutionaries, refugees, and expatriates -- Higher consciousness : reformers and utopians -- Mothers of the matrix (I) : Anna Doyle Wheeler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and forms of feminism -- Mothers of the matrix (II) : Fredrika Bremer, Frances Power Cobbe and "world"-traveling -- "A golden cable of sympathy" : Aleksandra Gripenberg, the Finland connection, and the 1888 Council of Women -- Appendix A : Some Atlantic community women with international links -- App. B : The relevance and irrelevance to this study of social network analysis -- App. C : Adventurers and invalids -- App. D : International governesses -- App. E : Women transatlantic entrepreneurs in the nineteenth century -- App. F : Women artists abroad. |
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Feminism -- History -- 19th century.
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Women's rights -- History -- 19th century.
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Feminism -- International cooperation -- History -- 19th century.
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Women's rights -- International cooperation -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- European influences.
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Europe -- Civilization -- American influences.
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| ISBN |
0813121175 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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