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"Women and Sisters" tells the story of the abolitionist leaders who were also feminists, joined in a double crusade to liberate women and slaves. Jean Fagan Yellin employs a subtle semiotic analysis of the texts and graphic images that carried the messages of these feminist abolitionists successfully -- until their icons were taken over and subverted by the patriarchal elite. -- From publisher's description.
- Author
- Yellin, Jean Fagan
- Publisher
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300045154
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Gender Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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