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Author: Harold L. Smith
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780870237058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this thought-provoking volume help illuminate both the continuities and conflicts in twentieth-century feminism.
Author: Margaret Walters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 019280510X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
Author: Sue Bruley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780312223755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis woman-centered history of Britain in the 20th century traces the changing concept of femininity in different chronological time periods. Women are focused on as agents for social change, and each chapter has a section on the women's movement. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the World Wars. After reviewing women's progress over the last hundred years, the book explores the question: Have women gained equality?
Author: Antoinette Burton
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0807860654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.
Author: Arianne Chernock
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009-12-18
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0804772932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMen and the Making of Modern British Feminism calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism. Focusing on the revolutionary 1790s, the book introduces several dozen male reformers who insisted that women's emancipation would be key to the establishment of a truly just and rational society. These men proposed educational reforms, assisted women writers into print, and used their training in religion, medicine, history, and the law to challenge common assumptions about women's legal and political entitlements. This book uses men's engagement with women's rights as a platform to reconsider understandings of gender in eighteenth-century Britain, the meaning and legacy of feminism, and feminism's relationship more generally to traditions of radical reform and enlightenment.
Author: Jane Dowson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-05-19
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521819466
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Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9780140279023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA distinguished social and feminist historian chronicles the dramatic changes that have taken place in the lives of American and British women over the course of the last one hundred years, explaining how women have shaped the twentieth century and featuring essays on topics ranging from lesbian culture to Barbie dolls.
Author: Ian Christopher Fletcher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 113563999X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological and cultural implications of gendered constructions of 'race', nation and empire. The book includes comprehensive case-studies of Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Palestine.
Author: Lucy Delap
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0191618225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells the story of lives and labour within British homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the interactions of servants and employers along with the intense controversies and emotions they inspired. Knowing Their Place also examines the employment of men and migrant workers, as well as the role of laughter and erotic desire in shaping domestic service. The memory of domestic service and the role of the past in shaping and mediating the present is examined through heritage and televisual sources, from Upstairs, Downstairs to The 1900 House. Drawing from advice manuals, magazines, novels, cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs, this fascinating book points to new directions in cultural history through its engagement in innovative areas such as the history of emotions and cultural memory. Through its attention to the contemporary rise in the employment of domestic workers, Knowing Their Place sets modern Britain in a new and compelling historical context.
Author: Glenda Sluga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1107062853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new view of the twentieth century, placing international ideas and institutions at its heart.
