The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Author | : Sara Delamont |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780415623209 |
ISBN-13 | : 0415623200 |
Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Nineteenth-Century Woman written by Sara Delamont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.