The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World (Routledge Library Editions: Women's History)

Delamont, Sara (EDT)/ Duffin, Lorna (EDT)

Routledge（2012/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415623209
• DDC分類 305.4209034

基本説明

Originally published in 1978.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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