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Radical femininity : women's self-representation in the public sphere
- Title
- Radical femininity : women's self-representation in the public sphere / edited by Eileen Janes Yeo.
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1391.G7 R33 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Yeo, Eileen.
- Description
- viii, 229 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This pioneering book explores how British women, from different social groups, created radical identities and represented themselves in the public sphere between 1790-1914.
- Subject
- Geschichte 1774-1939
- Women in public life > Great Britain > History
- Women in public life > Great Britain > Language
- Women radicals > Great Britain > History
- Women radicals > Great Britain > Language
- Women social reformers > Great Britain > History
- Women social reformers > Great Britain > Language
- Femininity > Great Britain > History
- Femininity
- Women in public life
- Women in public life > Language
- Women radicals
- Women radicals > Language
- Women social reformers
- Women social reformers > Language
- Feministin
- Frauenbewegung
- Frauenemanzipation
- Geschichte
- Suffragette
- Öffentlichkeit
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Some paradoxes of empowerment / Eileen Janes Yeo -- 'Let us begin well at home' : class, ethnicity and Christian motherhood in the writings of Hannah Kilham, 1774-1832 / Alison Twells -- 'The prayer, the passion and the reason' of Eliza Sharples : freethought, women's rights and republicanism, 1832-52 / Helen Rogers -- Images of femininity in the Royal Commissions of the 1830s and 1840s / Sophie Hamilton -- Conspicuous before the world : the political rhetoric of the Chartist women / Michelle de Larrabeiti -- Protestant feminists and Catholic saints in Victorian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- British freewomen : national identity, constitutionalism and languages of race in early suffragist histories / Sandra Stanley Holton -- 'Let the women be alive!' : the construction of the married working woman in the Industrial Women's Movement, 1890-1914 / Gerry Holloway -- 'As a war-horse to the beat of drums' : representations of working-class femininity in the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War / Gillian Scott.
- ISBN
- 0719052432
- 9780719052439
- 0719052440
- 9780719052446
- LCCN
- 98017920
- OCLC
- ocm38856242
- 38856242
- SCSB-379732
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library