ISBN:
9781136248252
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
DDC:
305.4209034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Frau
;
USA
;
Großbritannien
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.
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