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Author McFadden, Margaret, author

Title Golden cables of sympathy : the transatlantic sources of nineteenth-century feminism / Margaret H. McFadden
Edition Paperback edition
Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: On Beginning to Tell a Best-Kept Secret -- 1 Weaving the Delicate Web: Lucretia Mott and Succeeding Generations; 2 Paving the Way: The Miraculous Era in Communication and the Unprotected Female -- 3 The Ironies of Pentecost: Women Religious and Evangelistic Outreach; 4 Unwitting Allies: Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sand, and the Power of Literary Celebrity; 5 A Developing Consciousness: Revolutionaries, Refugees, and Expatriates; 6 Higher Consciousness: Reformers and Utopians
7 Mothers of the Matrix (I): Anna Doyle Wheeler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Forms of Feminism8 Mothers of the Matrix (II): Fredrika Bremer, Frances Power Cobbe and ""World""-Traveling; 9 ''A Golden Cable of Sympathy"": Aleksandra Gripenberg, the Finland Connection, and the 1888 Council of Women; Appendix A: Some Atlantic Community Women with International Links; Appendix B: The Relevance and Irrelevance to This Study of Social Network Analysis; Appendix C: Adventurers and Invalids; Appendix D: International Governesses; Appendix E: Women Transatlantic Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century
Appendix F: Women Artists AbroadNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Summary An intricate network of contacts developed among women in Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth century. These women created virtual communities through communication, support, and a shared ideology. Forged across boundaries of nationality, language, ethnic origin, and even class, these connections laid the foundation for the 1888 International Council of Women and formed the beginnings of an international women's movement. This matrix extended throughout England and the Continent and included Scandinavia and Finland. In a remarkable display of investigative research, Marg
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Feminism -- History -- 19th century
Women's rights -- History -- 19th century
Feminism -- International cooperation -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Civilization -- American influences
Civilization -- European influences
Feminism
Feminism -- International cooperation
Women's rights
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- European influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001974
Europe -- Civilization -- American influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045643
Subject Europe
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813149912
0813149916
0813184568
9780813184562