ISBN:
9780415623209
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World
DDC:
301.41/2/09034
Keywords:
Feminism ; History ; 19th century
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Women ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Women ; Health and hygiene
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Women ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman's cultural and physical world
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conspicuous Consumptive: Woman as an Invalid; 3. Prisoners of Progress: Women and Evolution; 4. Fitness, Feminism and Schooling; 5. The Contradictions in Ladies' Education; 6. The Domestic Ideology and Women's Education; 7. George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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