Women in public 1850-1900 : documents of the Victorian women's movement / Patricia Hollis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollis, Patricia, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Great Britain--History--19th century--Sources.

Feminism.

Women--Great Britain--History--19th century--Sources.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 h

Contents:

pt. 1. Images of women

pt. 2. Surplus women and emigration

pt. 3. Women at work

pt. 4. Education

pt. 5. Birth control

pt. 6. Law

pt. 7. The social evil

pt. 8. Public service

pt. 9. Politics

pt. 10. Two movements, one class.

Notes:

First published in 1979 by George Allen & Unwin.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24789-0

0-203-10406-4

1-136-24790-4

9780203104064

OCLC:

849917093