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English Feminism, 1780-1980 (Hardcover)
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English Feminism, 1780-1980 (Hardcover)
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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 can be used
both as an introductory text and as an interpretative work.
Professor Caine examines the complex questions surrounding the
concept of a feminist 'tradition', and shows how much the feminism
of any particular period related to the years preceding or
following it. Though feminism may have lacked the kind of
legitimating tradition evident in other forms of political thought,
the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft is seen here as something which
all nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminists had to come to
terms with. Her story was a constant reminder of the connection
between the demand for political and legal rights, and its
conflation with the issues of personal and sexual rebellion. Like
Mary Wollstonecraft, every woman pioneer into the public arena was
faced with assaults on her honour as well as on her intellectual
position. Professor Caine also addresses the language of feminism:
the introduction and changing meanings of the term `feminist'; the
importance of literary representations of women; and the question
of how one defines feminism, and establishes boundaries between
feminism and the `woman question'. She ends with a discussion of
the new emphasis, post-1980s, on the need to think about
`feminisms' in the plural, rather than any single kind of feminism.
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