| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City. By Bruce Dorsey. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv, 299 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3897-7.)

In this intriguing and somewhat uneven book, Bruce Dorsey seeks to

interrogate the ideological processes by which reformers invoked concepts and symbols of the masculine and the feminine to fashion and advance their reform agendas, and how those imaginings of gender shaped the ways reformers marked the boundaries of race, nation, and class in the early years of nation-building in the United States. (p. 2)

Its larger goal is to contribute to helping us comprehend "the gendering of power and inequality in our own lives, and in our own time" (p. 244). That objective aside, the bulk of Professor Dorsey's data come from Philadelphia, with references to "similar developments throughout the urban North," a technique that, he contends, enables him "to transcend the problem of typicality and uniqueness that plagues the earliest case studies of the new social history" (p. 10).

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