ISBN:
0195126238
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9780195126235
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 288 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Joyous Greetings : The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860
DDC:
305.42/09/034
Keywords:
Women's rights International cooperation 19th century
;
History
;
Equality History 19th century
;
Social movements History 19th century
;
Women's rights History 19th century
;
Feminism History 19th century
;
Feminism International cooperation 19th century
;
History
;
Equality ; History ; 19th century
;
Feminism ; History ; 19th century
;
Feminism ; International cooperation ; History ; 19th century
;
Social movements ; History ; 19th century
;
Women's rights ; History ; 19th century
;
Women's rights ; International cooperation ; History ; 19th century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over one hundred and fifty years ago, champions of women's rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world's earliest international feminist movement. Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story. From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved fullpolitical equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionshi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Panorama; 2. Angels over Amazons; 3. Becoming Rebels; 4. First Connections; 5. Emancipating Themselves; 6. The Pressure Builds; 7. Volcano Time; 8. The Heyday; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
