Moral Reform: From Suasion to Coercion

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Larry Whiteaker
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reform

The American Moral Reform Society, 1836-1841

1958 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard H. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reform

Sex and Societies for Moral Reform, 1688–1800

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reform

Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England 1870-1908

1983 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 716
Author(s):  
Linda Gordon ◽  
George K. Behlmer
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Moral Reform

“The Presence of Improper Females” Reforming Theater in Boston and Providence, 1820s–1840s

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-430
Author(s):  
Sara E. Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article examples the class and gender politics of theater reform in Boston, MA and Providence, RI of the 1820s-1840s focused on the third tier and sex work or prostitution in theaters. Both regulatory campaigns and Christian or moral reform mobilized constructions of the prostitute as predator while encouraging new policing of working women.

scholarly journals “Dextere sinistram vertere”: Jesuits as Military Chaplains in the Papal Expeditionary Force to France (1569–70); Discipline, Moral Reform, and Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-580
Author(s):  
Gianclaudio Civale
Keyword(s):  
Military Intervention ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Military Chaplains ◽  
The Third

In 1569, Pius v dispatched an expeditionary force to assist the royal armies in the Third War of Religion in France. This was the background against which the Jesuit Antonio Possevino, commissioned by Superior General Francisco de Borja and the militant pope himself, published Il soldato christiano, a short book that outlined a spiritual model of the disciplined soldier, far from previous heroic and aristocratic archetypes. Copies of the catechism were distributed to the officers and chaplains who accompanied the contingent. This essay aims to analyze the conditions in which the papal military intervention in France was conceived and the effects of Jesuit catechesis on the men who made up the papal army, as well as their reactions to this encroachment of “confessionalization” into the profession of arms.

Disturbing Boundaries: Temperance, Black Elevation, and Violence in Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends

Prospects ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 349-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Levine
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Program ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Universal Love

At the inaugural 1837 meeting of the American Moral Reform Society, one of Philadelphia's many African American reform groups, William Whipper called for blacks to commit themselves to total abstinence and “temperance in all things.” The group itself offered a resolution that subsumed a number of social desires and reforms under the rubric of temperance: “Resolved, That the successful promotion of all the principles of the Moral Reform Society, viz.: Education, Temperance, Economy, and Universal Love, depends greatly upon the practical prosecution of the Temperance Reform.” But of course temperance could only go so far, and at times those blacks most committed to temperance — whether conceived narrowly in terms of drinking, or more broadly in terms of a Franklinian commitment to economy and industry — seemed to lose sight of the limits of the black temperance movement in a racist culture. At the same 1837 meeting of the American Moral Reform Society, James Forten, Jr., addressed this issue head on. While endorsing temperance as a worthy social program of black elevation, he pointed to the central reality of the black experience in America: “that the arm of oppression is laid bare to crush us; that prejudice, like the never satiated tiger, selects us as its prey; that we have felt the withering blight of tyranny sweeping from before us, in its destructive course, our homes and our property.” But despite these obstacles, Forten advised, blacks should not give up the struggle to improve their lot and, as temperate and productive citizens, “to set an example to the rising generation.” As he rhetorically put it in his concluding remarks: “What … would the cause of learning and our country have lost, if a Franklin, a Rittenhouse, a Rush, could have been made to quail before the frowning brow of persecution?”

scholarly journals Forgotten Books: On the Making of Jane Porter’s "Thaddeus of Warsaw"

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-328
Author(s):  
Joel J. Janicki
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
National Hero ◽  
The Creation

This article attempts to identify and examine some of the factors and sources that led to the creation of a largely forgotten prose work of English fiction titled Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) which became an immediate and extraordinary success. Jane Porter’s novel deals with a fictitious Polish patriot Thaddeus Sobieski, who is modelled on the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The novel presents an excellent illustration of the cultural links between Great Britain and Poland towards the end of the 18th century and constitutes a cautionary tale for Porter’s English readers, one that creates a basis for moral reform and political engagement.

Moral Reform and Feminism: A Case Study

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Jeffress Little
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Time Period ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The Subject

For the uninitiated the subject of moral reform appears to be a topic best suited for examining the traditional view of the Latin American woman: that of a female preoccupied with sin and salvation and with no interest in the world outside the home or increased rights for her sex. Closer investigation reveals, however, that moral reform movements often have indicated women's active presence and concern about the direction of a nation's social policies and customs. (Addams, 1912: 160-195; Davis, 1973; Smith-Rosenberg, 1971: 381-385, 562-564). Involvement in moral reform activities often but not always has meant that a woman considered herself a feminist and believed that the goals of these two movements were inextricably linked together. In order to explore these two hypotheses, this essay will focus on Paulina Luisi (1875-1950), an Uruguayan doctor whose lifelong dedication to moral reform and feminism earned her an international reputation as a fighter for one sexual moral standard and women's rights (Mapons, 1950; Scarone, 1937: 284-289). Examining her extensive writings and many projects provides an excellent insight into two movements which claimed the loyalty of numerous women activists, both bourgeois and socialist, in Latin America, Europe, and the United States (Addams, 1912; Chataway, 1962; Lloyd, 1971; Luisi, 1948). Given the Latin American context and the time period, Luisi can be seen as a major figure in the international feminist and moral reform movements.

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