Men in the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies - Paperback

by Hélène Quanquin (Author)

This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19^th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women's rights, as important but also cumbersome allies.

Author Biography

Hélène Quanquin is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Lille (France). She studies 19th-century reform movements and activists. She is primarily interested in the mutual influence between the personal and the political and the different sites where political work is done and ideas are produced. She has published essays in European and American journals and books. She has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schlesinger Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the Sophia Smith Collection and the Association Française d'Etudes Américaines.