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Les femmes blanches de la Widows' society (Boston, USA), actrices de la sphère publique, 1816-1824

Marie-Claude Lamarche

Abstracts

Benevolent white women associations emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They grew quickly by a severe increase of members that were willing to help poor who deserves it. Historians and more specifically female historians tried to discover the motivation of their charity works. Did they establish friendly relations with the destitute? Did they truly care for the poverty-stricken? Did they participate in the public sphere? Through my study of the Widows Society, a benevolent association of white bostonian women, I demonstrate that these women were active in the public sphere between 1816 and 1824. They managed associative projects and activities such as visiting poor people, looking for job opportunities, saving money and making bank deposits. Moreover the poors were categorized with respect to their level of Christian faith and the nobility of their social origin.

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Femmes

Chronologique:

XIXe siècle
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Marie-Claude Lamarche, “Les femmes blanches de la Widows' society (Boston, USA), actrices de la sphère publique, 1816-1824”Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 45-3 | 2000, Online since , connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/289; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.289

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