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Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology)
Abby Hopper Gibbons Prison Reformer and Social Activist - Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology
Author: Margaret Hope Bacon
This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-century American social activist and prison reformer Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) illuminates women's changing role in the various reform movements of the period. Beginning as an abolitionist/feminist, Gibbons helped to found the Women's Prison Association of New York City in 1845. This group...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780791444979
ISBN-10: 079144497X
Publication Date: 3/2000
Pages: 217
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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