Victorian Feminists

by Caine, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780198204336
• ISBN10: 0198204337
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-05
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This is a study of Victorian feminism which focuses on four leading feminists: Emily Davies, Frances Power Cobbe,Josephine Butler, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. This approach enables Barbara Caine to uncover the range, diversity, and complexity of Victorian feminism, and to examine therelationship between personal experience and feminist commitment.Professor Caine sets her carefully researched biographical studies of the four women, each with her own fascinating history, in the context of the Victorian feminist movement. She explores the ideas and strategies of feminists in the late nineteenth century, analysing the tensions which arose asthey sought to achieve their aims. In particular, she traces the complex relationship between party politics and feminist commitment.Barbara Caine's insight into the vision and beliefs of these Victorian feminists is balanced by her scholarly understanding of the society within which they worked. She gives us vivid and perceptive portraits of four very different individuals, who nevertheless shared a commitment to improving thelot of women.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Feminism and the Woman Question in Early Victorian England	p. 18
Emily Davies	p. 54
Frances Power Cobbe	p. 103
Josephine Butler	p. 150
Millicent Garrett Fawcett	p. 196
Victorian Feminism and After: The 1890s and Beyond	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 268
Index	p. 279
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