The Weston sisters : an American abolitionist family /

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Author / Creator:	Chambers, Lee V., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (337 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Weston family. Weston family. Antislavery movements -- United States. Women abolitionists -- Massachusetts. Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Sisters -- Case studies. Antislavery movements. Sisters. Women abolitionists. Massachusetts. Massachusetts -- Boston. United States. Case studies. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645327

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ISBN:	9781469618180 1469618184 9781469618197 1469618192 9781469618173 1469618176
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-321) and index. Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 4, 2021).
Summary:	The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential members. In an extensive and original look at the connections among women, domesticity, and progressive political movements, Lee V. Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed "kin-work," that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women's roles from the domestic to the public sphere. The Weston sisters and abolitionist families like them supported each other in meeting the challenges of sickness, pregnancy, child care, and the myriad household responsibilities that made it difficult for women to engage in and sustain political activities. By repositioning the household and family to a more significant place in the history of American politics, Chambers examines connections between the female critique of slavery and patriarchy, ultimately arguing that it was family ties that drew women into the activism of public life and kept them there.
Other form:	Print version: Chambers, Lee V. Weston sisters. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014] 9781469618173

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a household band
Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery
Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice
I must make money: the sororal economy
The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household
As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach
Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping
Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households
Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith
Acknowledgments
Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence
Weston genealogy
Antislavery chronology.

The Weston sisters : an American abolitionist family /

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