The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World

ISBN-13: 9780415752503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Sara Delamont; Lorna Duffin

Opis

This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of the lady and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman's cultural and physical world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Conspicuous Consumptive: Woman as an Invalid  3. Prisoners of Progress: Women and Evolution  4. Fitness, Feminism and Schooling  5. The Contradictions in Ladies’ Education  6. The Domestic Ideology and Women’s Education  7. George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft

O autorze

Delamont, Sara; Duffin, Lorna