Victorian Feminists

Name: Victorian Feminists
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ISBN: 9780198204336

ISBN-10: 0198204337

ISBN-13: 9780198204336

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Barbara Caine

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This is a study of Victorian feminism which focuses on four leading feminists: Emily Davies, Frances Power Cobbe,Josephine Butler, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. This approach enables Barbara Caine to uncover the range, diversity, and complexity of Victorian feminism, and to examine the relationship between personal experience and feminist commitment. Professor Caine sets her carefully researched biographical studies of the four women, each with her own fascinating history, in the context of the Victorian feminist movement. She explores the ideas and strategies of feminists in the late nineteenth century, analysing the tensions which arose as they sought to achieve their aims. In…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/5/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Barbara Caineis Director of the Centre for Biography and Life Writing and co-ordinator of masters programme in Biography and Life Writing at Monash University, Australia.



Preface



Introduction



Feminism and the Woman Question in Early Victorian England



Emily Davies



Frances Power Cobbe



Josephine Butler



Millicent Garrett Fawcett



Victorian Feminism and After: The 1890s and Beyond


Bibliography


Index