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The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement / Susannah Gibson.
Van Pelt Library HQ1075.5.E5 G53 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Susannah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--England--History--18th century.
- Sex role.
- Women intellectuals--England--History--18th century.
- Women intellectuals.
- Women--England--Social conditions--18th century.
- Women.
- England--Intellectual life--18th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
- Summary:
- This illuminating group portrait delves into the lives of a circle of 18th-century women called the Bluestockings, who came together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, fighting for women to be educated and have a public role in society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393881387
- 0393881385
- OCLC:
- 1445897765
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