This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by bringing to light a wealth of unused sources, demonstrates that a vibrant community existed during the 1830s and 1840s. Previously neglected, this remarkable group of writers and reformers established both the ideologies and personnel network which provided the foundations of the women's rights campaigns of the coming decades.
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian F...
This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of...
This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and w...
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by bringing to light a wealth of unused sources, demonstrates that a vibrant community existed during the 1830s and 1840s. Previously neglected, this remarkable group of writers and reformers established both the ideologies and personnel network which provided the foundations of the women's rights campaigns of the coming decades.
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian F...
This volume provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based upon extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. The volume is innovative too for its attention to rural experiences of politics, as well as urban. Dr Gleadle not only throws new light on women's political activities but also does much to challenge many traditional assumptions about contemporary politics per se. This includes, for...
This volume provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth c...
In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, built and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual places and spaces have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich eld of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of space be that space domestic or public, rural or...
In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, built and otherwise, architectural surroundings, lands...
Examines women's political involvement from various angles. Attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, European nationalism and lifestyle, enable this study to challenge both the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women and the nature of political history.
Examines women's political involvement from various angles. Attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, European n...
