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The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

Online-Ressource (217 p)

Englisch

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;

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Print version: The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World

978-0-415-62320-9

978-0-415-62320-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-136-24825-2 ( : 115 (NL,TX))

HQ1418 .N56

301.41/2/09034     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Feminism ; History ; 19th century ; Women ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Women ; Health and hygiene ; Women ; United States ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books

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