INFIDEL FEMINISM: SECULARISM, RELIGION AND WOMENâ#x80;#x99;S EMANCIPATION, ENGLAND 1830â#x80;#x93;1914; Series Editor; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Freethinking feminists: women in the Freethought movement; 2. Counter-conversion: Freethinking feminists and the renunciation of religion; 3. Preachers of truth: womenâ#x80;#x99;s activism in the Secularist movement; 4. Infidel feminism: feminism in the Freethought movement; 5. Freethinking feminists and the womenâ#x80;#x99;s movement; 6. Freethought and Free Love? Marriage, birth control and sexual morality; Conclusion
Summary
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 free l
