| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Women of Conscience: Social Reform in Danville, Illinois, 1890–1930. By Janet Duitsman Cornelius and Martha LaFrenz Kay. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xxviii, 239 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-746-7.)

Women of Conscience explores women's associations in a medium-sized midwestern town. While rapid growth at the end of the century left Danville with vice, poverty, and educational problems similar to those that motivated female reformers across the nation, the authors suggest that the evolution of women's public activity in Danville diverged from that of the large cities that have received much scholarly attention. Local studies, they argue, illustrate the wide range of ways that women moved into the public sphere, the conservatism of many activist women, and the historiographical limitations of conflating national trends with individual women's choices and experiences on a local level.

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