English Feminism, 1780-1980

by Caine, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780198206866
• ISBN10: 0198206860
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Barbara Caine offers the first complete overview of the history of "modern" English feminism, from the French Revolution through to the advent of Women's Liberation. Her analysis of feminist organizations, debates, and campaigns shows a keen sense of the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change. The result is a fascinating study with a new perspective on feminists and feminist traditions which should interest and instruct readers at all levels.

Table of Contents

Chronology

Introduction

Feminism and the Rights of Women Social change and sexual difference in the late eighteenth century

stonecraft and the origins of modern Feminism

Feminism and the Woman question

Feminism and the Women Question in the early Nineteenth Century Men in

Thompson and the Unitarian radicals

The tragic tale of Caroline Norton Harriet

Martineau and the slow development of feminist consciousness Feminism, Evangelicalism, and 'Women's sphere'

Mid-Victorian Feminism

The Langham Place circle and the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft Feminism, liberalism, and the problem of sexual oppression

Feminist campaigns and feminist strategies

Nation and empire in Victorian feminism

The New Woman and the Militant Feminism and the new woman Feminism, the labour movement, and working-class women Militancy

Feminism and imperialism

Feminism and the Woman Citizen in the Inter-War Years

The legacy of War

A feminist programme Training women for citizenship

Feminist questions and party politics From politics to culture: feminist theory in the 1920s and 1930s

Feminism and internationalism

The Post-War World

The impact of war Feminist organizations and the feminist agenda

The woman question in the 1950s and 1960s

Afterword: From Feminism to Feminisms

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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