Women S Emancipation Movements In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Sylvia Paletschek
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804767071

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Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century by Sylvia Paletschek Pdf

The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at a different pace and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women’s emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader context to the movement by including countries both large and small from all regions of Europe. Fourteen historians, all of them specialists in women’s history, examine the origins and development of women’s emancipation movements in their respective areas of expertise. By exploring the cultural and political diversity of nineteenth-century Europe and at the same time pointing out connections to questions explored by conventional scholarship, the essays shed new light on common developments and problems.

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415629850

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The Feminists by Richard J. Evans Pdf

Originally published in 1977, this book brings together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all over the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It deals not only with Britain and the United States but also with Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. The chapters trace the origins, development, and eventual collapse of these movements in relation to the changing social formations and political structures of Europe, America and Australasia in the era of bourgeois liberalism. The first part of the book discusses the origins of feminist movements and advances a model or 'ideal type' description of their development. The second part then takes a number of case studies of individual feminist movements to illustrate the main varieties of organised feminism and the differences from country to country. The third part looks at socialist women's movements and includes a study of the Socialist Women's International. A final part touches on the reason for the eclipse of women's emancipation movements in the half-century following the end of the First World War, before a general conclusion pulls together some of the arguments advanced in earlier chapters and attempts a comparison between these feminist movements of 1840-1920 and the Women's Liberation Movement.

Author : Elinor Accampo
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535865913

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Feminism and Women's Emancipation by Elinor Accampo Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Feminism and Women's Emancipation is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Philippa Levine
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063881

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Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900 by Philippa Levine Pdf

The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women’s movement that celebrated its female identity, its campaigns “concerned as much with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for equality with men.” Levine traces the changing face of a half century of England’s feminist movement, the personalities who dominated it, its pressing issues, and the tactics employed in the fight. Political themes common to the specific protests, she finds, included women’s moral superiority, a close-knit sense of a supportive female community, and a conscious woman-centeredness of interests. Along the way, Levine puts to rest many inaccuracies and assumptions that have dogged the history of presuffragette feminism, causing it to be discredited or dismissed. She refutes, for example, the judgement that the movement served only the needs of bourgeois women, and she warns against the pitfall of defining feminism by the standards of a male politics whose practices make comparisons inadequate and unsuitable. Levine has organized her study with an eye to the breadth of concerns that characterized England’s nineteenth-century feminism: women’s entry into education and the professions; trade unionism, working conditions, equal pay; suffrage and other political and property rights for women; marriage and morality issues—prostitution, incest, venereal disease, wife abuse, pornography, and equal rights to divorce.

Author : Ana Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244675

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The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements by Ana Stevenson Pdf

This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, this book examines the influence of the woman-slave analogy in popular culture along with its use across the dress reform, labor, suffrage, free love, racial uplift, and anti-vice movements. At once provocative and commonplace, the woman-slave analogy was used to exceptionally varied ends in the era of chattel slavery and slave emancipation. Yet, as this book reveals, a more diverse assembly of reformers both accepted and embraced a woman-as-slave worldview than has previously been appreciated. One of the most significant yet controversial rhetorical strategies in the history of feminism, the legacy of the woman-slave analogy continues to underpin the debates that shape feminist theory today.

Author : Angela Berlis,Christiana de Groot
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628373530

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Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible by Angela Berlis,Christiana de Groot Pdf

Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both the public and domestic spheres. Essays consider the social, political, biblical, and theological factors that resulted in a multinational raising of awareness and emancipation for women in the nineteenth century and the strengthening of their international networks. The contributors include Angela Berlis, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ute Gerhard, Christiana de Groot, Arnfriður Guðmundsdóttir, Izaak J. de Hulster, Elisabeth Joris, Christine Lienemann-Perrin, Amanda Russell-Jones, Claudia Setzer, Aud V. Tønnessen, Adriana Valerio, and Royce M. Victor.

Author : Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UVA:X000943979

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The German Women's Movement by Gisela Brinker-Gabler Pdf

This book illustrates the winning of women's emancipation in Germany since the nineteenth century. Female writers discuss the women who were the protagonists of the German Women's Movement, beginning with the period preceeding the March Revolution of 1848, and moving on to the Empire, the Weimar Republic, and finally to the women who have fought and are fighting in the Federal Republic of Germany for the practical realization of rights.

Author : Elena V. Shabliy,Dmitry Kurochkin,O’Donnell Karen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429640292

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Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle by Elena V. Shabliy,Dmitry Kurochkin,O’Donnell Karen Pdf

This work investigates women’s emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. Philosophers, poets, writers, and journalists were concerned with this problem and began popularizing wholeheartedly the so-called "burning" questions. The new femininity was represented not only in the Christian context; many other traditions and cultures opened the discussion about the women’s lot. This volume analyzes women’s literary voices from different parts of the world—Turkey, England, the U.S., Italy, Russia, Spain, and others. Imagination, as it is believed, has no borders and is dialogical in its nature.

Author : Laura Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0719097282

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Infidel Feminism by Laura Schwartz Pdf

Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more 'respectable' post-1850 women's movement and the 'New Women' of the early twentieth century. Schwartz looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists associated with organised Secularism, whose renunciation of religion encouraged and shaped their support for women's emancipation. These self-proclaimed 'infidel' feminists championed moral autonomy, free speech, and the democratic dissemination of knowledge. Alongside their rejection of god-given notions of sexual difference and a critique of the Christian institution of marriage such Freethinking principles provided powerful intellectual tools with which to challenge dominant and oppressive constructions of womanhood. Their contribution to the wider feminist movement was significant at a time when the issue of women's rights was integral to the creation of modern definitions of 'religion' and 'secularism' and when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and Freethinkers battled over who had women's best interests at heart. This book will be invaluable to both scholars and students of social and cultural history and feminist thought, and to interdisciplinary studies of religion and secularisation. Its accessible style will also ensure that it appeals to those interested in the history of women's movements more broadly.

Author : June Edith Hahner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0822310511

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Emancipating the Female Sex by June Edith Hahner Pdf

June E. Hahner’s pioneering work,Emancipating the Female Sex,offers the first comprehensive history of the struggle for women’s rights in Brazil. Based on previously undiscovered primary sources and fifteen years of research, Hahner’s study provides long-overdue recognition of the place of women in Latin American history. Hahner traces the history of Brazilian women’s fight for emancipation from its earliest manifestations in the mid-nineteenth century to the successful conclusion of the suffrage campaign in the 1930s. Drawing on interviews with surviving Brazilian suffragists and contemporary feminists as well as manuscripts and printed documents, Hahner explores the strategies and ideological positions of Brazilian feminists. In focusing on urban upper- and middle-class women, from whose ranks the leadership for change arose, she examines the relationship between feminism and social change in Brazil’s complex and highly stratified society.

Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar,James Brewer Stewart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300137866

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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation by Kathryn Kish Sklar,James Brewer Stewart Pdf

Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain.

Author : Richard John Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0203104250

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The Feminists by Richard John Evans Pdf

Author : Claire G. Moses
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438413747

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French Feminism in the 19th Century by Claire G. Moses Pdf

Histories of France have erased the feminist presence from nineteenth-century political life and the feminist impact from the changes that affected the lives of the French. Now, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century completes the history books by restoring this missing—and vital—chapter of French history. The book recounts the turbulent story of nineteenth-century French feminism, placing it in the context of the general political events that influenced its development. It also examines feminist thought and activities, using the very words of the women themselves—in books, newspapers, pamphlets, memoirs, diaries, speeches, and letters. Featured is a wealth of previously unpublished personal letters written by Saint-Simonian women. These engrossing documents reveal the nuances of changing consciousness and show how it led to an autonomous women's movement. Also explored are the relationships between feminist ideology and women's actual status—legal, social, and economic—during the century. Both bourgeois and working-class women are surveyed. Beginning with a general survey of feminism in France, the book provides historical context and clarifies the later vicissitudes of the "condition feminine."

Author : Laura Schwarz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781526130662

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Infidel feminism by Laura Schwarz Pdf

Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women’s movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women’s movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century. This book will be invaluable to both scholars and students of social and cultural history and feminist thought, and to interdisciplinary studies of religion and secularisation, as well as those interested in the history of women’s movements more broadly.

Author : Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:742487949

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The German Women's Movement by Gisela Brinker-Gabler Pdf