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Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900
Philippa Levine
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paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women’s movement that celebrated its female identity, its campaigns “concerned as much with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for equality with men.”
Levine traces the changing face of a half century of England’s feminist movement, the personalities who dominated ... Read more
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women’s movement that celebrated its female identity, its campaigns “concerned as much with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for equality with men.”
Levine traces the changing face of a half century of England’s feminist movement, the personalities who dominated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813013213
SKU
V9780813013213
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About Philippa Levine
Philippa Levine is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas in the department of history at the University of Texas at Austin and codirector of the program in British Studies.
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