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English feminism, 1780-1980

Author: Barbara Caine
Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis of feminism in England examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change over tow centuries. Professor Caine investigates the complex question surrounding the concept of a feminist 'tradition', and shows how much the feminism of any particular period related to the years preceding or following it. Though feminism may have lacked  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Caine
ISBN: 0198204345 9780198204343 0198206860 9780198206866
OCLC Number: 36001391
Description: xvii, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction ---
1. Feminism and the Rights of Women ---
2. Feminism and the Women Question in the early Nineteenth Century ---
3. Mid-Victorian Feminism ---
4. The New Woman and the Militant ---
5. Feminism and the Woman Citizen in the Inter-War Years ---
6. The Post-War World ---
Afterword: From Feminism to Feminisms.
Responsibility: Barbara Caine.
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"Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis of feminism in England examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural change over tow centuries. Professor Caine investigates the complex question surrounding the concept of a feminist 'tradition', and shows how much the feminism of any particular period related to the years preceding or following it. Though feminism may have lacked the kind of legitimating tradition evident in other forms of political thought, the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft was something which all nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminists had to come to terms with. Her story was a constant reminder of the connection between the demand for political and legal rights, and its conflation with the issues of personal and sexual rebellion. Like Wollstonecraft, every woman pioneer into the public arena faced assaults on her honour as well as on her intellectual position. The author also addresses the language of feminism: the introduction and changing meanings of the term 'feminist';the importance of literary representations of women; and the question of how one defines feminism, and establishes boundaries between feminism and the 'woman question'. She ends with a discussion of the new emphasis, post-1980s, on the need to think about 'feminisms' in the plural, rather than any single kind of feminism."--P. [4] of cover.

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