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Women's Struggle for Equality
Jean V. Matthews
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Description for Women's Struggle for Equality
Paperback. A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828-1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Jean Matthew’s new study of the early years of the women’s rights movement outlines the period from 1828 to 1976 as a distinct “first phase.” Ms. Matthews situates this early feminist activity within the lively nineteenth-century debate over the Woman Question and pays attention to the opponents as well as the advocates of equal rights for women. Her book demonstrates that the intense conflict generated by the movement was due less to any specific reform proposals than to the realization—among men and women—that the early feminists were aiming at a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant and of the relationship ... Read more
Jean Matthew’s new study of the early years of the women’s rights movement outlines the period from 1828 to 1976 as a distinct “first phase.” Ms. Matthews situates this early feminist activity within the lively nineteenth-century debate over the Woman Question and pays attention to the opponents as well as the advocates of equal rights for women. Her book demonstrates that the intense conflict generated by the movement was due less to any specific reform proposals than to the realization—among men and women—that the early feminists were aiming at a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant and of the relationship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Series
American Ways Series
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631464
SKU
V9781566631464
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About Jean V. Matthews
Jean Matthews is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, and author of Toward a New Society and Women's Struggle for Equality, a history of the women's movement from 1828 to 1876, also in the American Ways Series. She lives in Oakland, California.
Reviews for Women's Struggle for Equality
Jean Matthew's Women Struggle for Equality provides an easily-absorbed history of the first phases of the women's movement from 1828-76. These were pivotal early years, marking the birth of one of the most important social movements of the 19th century: opponents as well as advocates of the movement are revealed, placing this a step above the usual biographical or historical ... Read more