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Women in Public, 1850-1900 - Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement (Hardcover)
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Women in Public, 1850-1900 - Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which
illustrates all aspects of the emergent women's movement during the
years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to
students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies,
to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists. Women's
pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular
journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading
reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women:
'surplus women' and the issue of emigration; women's work and male
hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the
claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard,
led by Josephine Butler; women's public service from philanthropy -
exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill -
to local government; and finally women's entry into politics led by
Lydia Becker. The contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle
for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant's inspiration of the
match-girl's strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child
prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War's Appeal against female suffrage
in 1889. The book was originally published in 1979.
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