Nineteenth-century Woman Her Cultural and Physical World
Produktdetaljer
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.
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.
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