ISBN:
9780415623476
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (360 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Public, 1850-1900 : Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement
DDC:
305.420941
Keywords:
Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Feminism ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Sources
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Women ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Sources
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Abstract:
Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women's movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.Women's pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women: 'surplus women' and the issue of emigration; women's work and male h
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; PART 1 IMAGES OF WOMEN; Introduction; 1.1 Respectability and Public Life; 1.1.1 Impropriety of public life (Emily Davies, Letters to a Daily Paper, Newcastle, 1860); 1.1.2 The image of a lady (B. A. Clough, Memoir of Anne Jemima Clough, 1897; Elizabeth Garrett, quoted in Barbara Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 1927; Lilias Ashworth, quoted in Helen Blackburn, Women's Suffrage, 1902); 1.2 Dependence and Self-Dependence; 1.2.1 The strength of weakness (T. H. Lister, 'Rights and conditions of women', Edinburgh Review, vol. 73, 1841
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J. Burgon, Sermon, 1884)1.2.2 The indignity of dependence (Mrs Hugo Reid, A Plea for Women, 1843; Barbara Leigh Smith, Women and Work, 1856; Harriet Martineau, 'Female industry', Edinburgh Review, vol. 109, 1859; Mrs Craik, Women's Thoughts about Women, 1862; Julia Wedgwood, 'Female suffrage', and Josephine Butler, Introduction, in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869); 1.2.3 Marriage, a woman's profession ('Queen bees or working bees', Saturday Review, 12 November 1859)
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1.2.4 Service, a woman's career (W. R. Greg, 'Why are women redundant?', National Review, April 1862)1.2.5 The advantages of single life (Maria Grey and Emily Shirreff, Thoughts on Self-Culture, 1872 edn); 1.2.6 The domestic enslavement of women (F. Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, 1884); 1.3 Separate Spheres; 1.3.1 Women's role (Sara Ellis, The Daughters of England, 1842); 1.3.2 Doing and being (J. Ruskin, 'Of Queen's Gardens', in Sesame and Lilies, 1865); 1.3.3 A false division (Emily Davies, The Higher Education of Women, 1866)
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1.3.4 The artificial nature of women (J. S. Mill, The Subjection of Women, 1869 Catherine Booth, quoted in F. de L. Booth-Tucker, The Short Life of Catherine Booth, 1893); 1.3.5 The womanly woman (Eliza Linton, The Girl of the Period, 1883); 1.3.6 Subordination, not competition (Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, 1889); 1.4 Biology her Destiny; 1.4.1 Birth her mission (Frances Power Cobbe, 'The final cause of women', in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869; Emily Davies, Proposed New College for Women, 1868)
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1.4.2 Sex in mind (H. Maudsley, 'Sex in mind and in education', Fortnightly Review, April 1874 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 'A reply', Fortnightly Review, July 1874; Frances Buss, quoted in Barbara Stephen, Emily Davies and Girton College, 1927); 1.4.3 The reproduction of the race (G. Allen, 'Plain words on the woman question', Fortnightly Review, October 1889); PART 2 SURPLUS WOMEN AND EMIGRATION; Introduction; 2.1 Family Colonisation (Caroline Chisholm, The A.B.C. of Colonization, 1850); 2.2 Emigration of Ladies (Maria Rye, The Emigration of Educated Women, 1861)
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2.3 Redundant Women (W. R. Greg, 'Why are women redundant?', National Review, April 1862)
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