Slavery in the international women's movement, 1832-1914 : memory work and the legacy of abolitionism / Sophie van den Elzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elzen, Sophie van den, Author.

Series:

Slaveries since emancipation.

Slaveries since emancipation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements.

Women abolitionists.

Women's rights--History.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced over the span of almost a century, including novels, journals, speeches, pamphlets, and posters, van den Elzen reveals how the women's movement gradually diverged from a position of solidarity with the enslaved into one of opposition, based on hierarchical assumptions about class and race. This inclusive cultural survey provides a new understanding of the ways in which the cultural memory of Anglo-American antislavery was imported and adapted across Europe and the Atlantic world, and it breaks new ground in studying the "woman-slave analogy" from a longitudinal and transnational comparative perspective. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-41191-8

1-009-41192-6

1-009-41194-2

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access