Against the Tide

?[T]his collection of essays would...prove very valuable to Women's and American Studies, as well as History and Sociology scholars. It would certainly be a good addition to any academic library.?-Journal of American Culture ?The new addition by Paul A. Cimbala is a long overdue study of the black American-Canadian abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary....This is a good text for an advanced undergraduate course.?-Journal of Women's History "YThis collection of essays would...prove very valuable to Women's and American Studies, as well as History and Sociology scholars. It would certainly be a good addition to any academic library."-Journal of American Culture "The new addition by Paul A. Cimbala is a long overdue study of the black American-Canadian abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary....This is a good text for an advanced undergraduate course."-Journal of Women's History "[T]his collection of essays would...prove very valuable to Women's and American Studies, as well as History and Sociology scholars. It would certainly be a good addition to any academic library."-Journal of American Culture

PAUL A. CIMBALA is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University. He has published articles on slavery and Reconstruction. He is the coeditor of American Reform and Reformers (Greenwood, 1996). RANDALL M. MILLER is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at St. Joseph's University. He is the author or editor of 16 books, including the award-winning Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family (1978, rev. ed., 1990), Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery (Greenwood, 1988), and American Reform and Reformers (Greenwood, 1996).

Preface Introduction Catherine Beecher and Domestic Relations by Kathleen Berkeley Mary Ann Shad Carey and Black Abolitionism by Paul A. Cimbala Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Rights Movement by Ann D. Gordon Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frances Willard and Temperance by Ian R. Tyrrell Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement by Louise W. Knight Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign by Lindo O. McMurry Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign by Robert F. Martin Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement by Ellen Chesler Dorothy Day and the American Catholic Worker Movement by Anne Klejment Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women by Barbara McGowan Select Bibliography on Women and Reform Index