Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century

Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sylvia Paletschek
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804767076

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.

The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements
Author: Ana Stevenson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783030244668

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.

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300137869

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

The Feminists

The Feminists
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1977
Genre: Feminism
ISBN: 9780856642128

"This book is a first attempt to bring 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. The author deals not only with Britain and the United States, but also with Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. His intention is to 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 "idea 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 in its structure and evolution from country to country. The third part of the book deals in a similar way to parts one and two with socialist women's movements and includes a study of the Socialist Women's International. A fourth and final part discusses in a general way the reason for the eclipse of women's emancipation movements in the half-century following the end of the First World War. There is a brief appendix on international feminist organisations. A short note on further reading concludes the book."--Book jacket.

Joyous Greetings

Joyous Greetings
Author: Bonnie S. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2000-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198029179

Over one hundred 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 full political equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionship, claimed the right to divorce and to get custody of their children, and argued that an unjust economic system forced women into poorly paid jobs. They rejected the traditional view that women's subordination was preordained, natural, and universal. In restoring these daring activists' achievements to history, Joyous Greetings passes on their inspiring and empowering message to today's new generation of feminists.

Conceiving Freedom

Conceiving Freedom
Author: Camillia Cowling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469610876

Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro

Roman Fever and Other Stories

Roman Fever and Other Stories
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439125570

A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in Roman Fever and Other Stories. From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset," Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restrictions," as Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes in her introduction. Roman Fever and Other Stories is a surprisingly contemporary volume of stories by one of our most enduring writers.

European Feminisms, 1700-1950

European Feminisms, 1700-1950
Author: Karen M. Offen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804734208

This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe over the past 250 years. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical record, it provides a comprehensive, comparative account of feminist developments in European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective. By placing gender, or relations between women and men, at the center of European politics, it aims to reconfigure our understanding of the European past and to make visible a long but neglected tradition of feminist thought and politics. On another level the book seeks to disentangle some misperceptions and to demystify some confusing contemporary debates about the Enlightenment, reason, nature, and public vs. private, equality vs. difference. In the process, the author aims to show that gender is not merely 'a useful category of analysis', but that sexual difference lies at the heart of human thought and politics.