This is the first full-length biography of Frances Power Cobbe
(1822-1904), Anglo-Irish reformer, feminist, and
anti-vivisectionist Lori Williamson builds on original research,
Cobbe's autobiography, and the work of later historians to analyze
Cobbe's life as well as her ideological outlook.
A workhouse visitor, Cobbe campaigned strenuously against those
in power for rights of women, the poor and of animals. A prominent
critic of the Poor Law, she was also the first person to draw up a
petition to control cruelty to animals. Using Cobbe's thoughts and
activities as a catalyst, Power and Protest explores the issues of
protest, reform, hierarchy, power, and gender, the relationship
between men and women, humans and animals, and includes important
work on pressure-group dynamics.
Given its wide-ranging scope, depiction of nineteenth-century
British society and culture, and its exploration of the symbiotic
relationships between ideology and the dynamics of protest, Power
and Protest will attract students of history, social policy, and
gender. Its emphasis on anti-vivisection activity provides a
powerful basis for understanding power relations and the historical
concept of rights.
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