Willamena Webbs was born almost seven years ago, on a cool, crisp night on the last day in October. Her parents were so proud of their one and only daughter. She was everything they expected her to be. Well, almost. On that memorable night, Willamena's parents and her grandmother held her up to their ears to hear something very strange coming from her chest. It was a soft noise but alarmed them all the same. "It can not be," her mother Velma whispered. "It is some sort of farce for sure!" her father William said. "What? You need a scarf?" Grandma yelled (she was little hard of hearing.) But...
Willamena Webbs was born almost seven years ago, on a cool, crisp night on the last day in October. Her parents were so proud of their one and only da...
Infidel Feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and...
Infidel Feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It loo...