The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes

ISBN-13: 9781848932388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 304 str.

Stephanie Green

Opis

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was the first woman in Scotland to gain a university qualification. She devoted her life to the study of Shakespeare and to the promotion of women in public life. Though Charlotte is largely forgotten, her daughter Marie is well known as a passionate advocate of sex education and women's rights. In this study Green asserts that Marie's success can only be understood in relation to the achievements of her mother. The careers of the two women are further used to argue that scholarly success in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was only possible through sustained engagement with the (male) establishment.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction: Performing a Public Life, 1 Demands and Desires, 2 The Rational Charlotte Stopes, 3 Personal and Political: The 1890s, 4 Pleasure, Drama, Money: The Maturation of Marie Stopes, 5 The Search for Recognition, 6 Marie Stopes and the Public Imagination, 7 The Citizen Mother, Afterword, Notes, Works Cited, Index

O autorze

Stephanie Green