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The Sabine Women Re-Imagined: Women And The Power Of Persuasion During The Early National Peace Movement, Rachel A. Snell

Maine History

Snell’s article examines founder and first president of the American Peace Society William Ladd’s encouragement of women’s participation in the Early National peace movement as an example of politicized domesticity. Ladd’s encouragement built upon the popular perception that women’s virtue exerted a moralizing influence over men and families. By encouraging women to write peace essays and hymns for publication, Ladd sought to expand women’s power and influence beyond their families. The embrace of women’s persuasive abilities in reform activities is representative of the overlap between public and private space in Early National America as well as the ongoing negotiation of …