The Nineteenth-century Woman

Her Cultural and Physical World
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-62320-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.

Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delamont, Sara

Duffin, Lorna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Conspicuous Consumptive: Woman as an Invalid 3. Prisoners of Progress: Women and Evolution 4. Fitness, Feminism and Schooling 5. The Contradictions in Ladies’ Education 6. The Domestic Ideology and Women’s Education 7. George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft

Über Autor(innen)

Delamont, Sara; Duffin, Lorna