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Descripción Softcover. Condición: new. New edition. Celebrated prison reformer Miriam Van Waters made history for her sensational battle to retain the superintendency of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women in 1949 Maternal Justice provides a compelling biography of this early lesbian activist by moving beyond the controversy to tell the story of a remarkable woman whose success rested upon the power of her own charismatic leadershipEstelle B Freedman draws from Van Waterss diaries letters and personal papers to recreate her complex personal life unveiling the disparity between Van Waterss public persona and her agonized private soul With the power and elegance of a novel Maternal Justice illuminates this historical context casting light on the social welfare tradition on womens history on the American feminist movement and on the history of sexualityMaternal Justice is as much a work of history as it is biography bringing to life not only a remarkable woman but also the complex political and social milieu within which she worked and livedKelleher Jewett The NationThis sympathetic biography reclaims Van Waters for historyPublishers WeeklyThe Van Waters legacy as Freedman gracefully presents is that she cared about the lives of women behind bars It is a strikingly unfashionable sentiment todayJane Meredith Adams San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Editors Recommended SelectionThis finely crafted biography is both an engrossing read and a richly complicated account of a reformer whose work bridged the eras of voluntarist charitable activism and professional social serviceSherri Broder Womens Review of BooksThis is a sympathetic highly personal biography revealing of both the authors responses to her subjects life and in considerable detail Van Waterss family traumas illnesses and love affairsElizabeth Israels Perry Journal of American History. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX0226261506
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