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Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that t

Women's rights --- Women political activists --- Women social reformers --- Political activists --- Social reformers --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- History --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Children's Friend Society --- History. --- Worcester (Mass.) --- Worcester (Mass. : Town) --- Quinsigamond (Mass. : Plantation) --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Sources.