Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

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Why do a little feminists advocate male-female equality whilst others remain committed to gender difference? What are the sociocultural foundations of those seemingly opposing gender constructs and why has the American feminist movement failed to articulate an ideology that encompasses both?

Debra Gold Hansen explores the origins of the equality-as opposed to-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. After organising a historical framework for ladies’s lives in early nineteenth-century Boston, Hansen analyzes the membership of the Society along the lines of race, religion, and socioeconomic status. Through her findings, she concludes that some of the issues that estranged female abolitionists in antebellum Boston continue to divide women as of late, testifying to not the strength of the bonds between women but to the fragility of the ones ties.

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