Description |
viii,229 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Some paradoxes of empowerment / Eileen Janes Yeo -- 1. 'Let us begin well at home': class, ethnicity and Christian motherhood in the writing of Hannah Kilham, 1774-1832 / Alison Twells -- 2. 'The prayer, the passion and the reason' of Eliza Sharples: freethought, women's rights and republicanism, 1832-52 / Helen Rogers -- 3. Images of femininity in the Royal Commissions of the 1830s and 1840s / Sophie Hamilton -- 4. Conspicuous before the world: the political rhetoric of the Chartist women / Michelle De Larrabeiti -- 5. Protestant feminists and Catholic saints in Victorian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- 6. British freewomen: national identity, constitutionalism and languages of race in early suffragist histories / Sandra Stanley Holton -- 7. 'Let the women be alive!': the construction of the married working woman in the Industrial Women's Movement, 1890-1914 / Gerry Holloway |
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8. 'As a war-horse to the beat of drums': representations of working-class femininity in the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War / Gillian Scott |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Femininity -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women in public life -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women in public life -- Great Britain -- Language.
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Women radicals -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women radicals -- Great Britain -- Language.
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Women social reformers -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women social reformers -- Great Britain -- Language.
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Author |
Yeo, Eileen.
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LC no. |
98017920 |
ISBN |
0719052432 (cased) |
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0719052440 (paperback) |
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