| Description |
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: cross-channel perspectives / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- 1. Mary Wollstonecraft: a problematic legacy / Pam Hirsch -- 2. A republican answers back: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albertine Necker de Saussure, and forcing little girls to be free / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- 3. Writing history for British women: Elizabeth Hamilton and the Memoirs of Agrippina / Jane Rendall -- 4. Politics without feminism: the Victorian political hostess / K. D. Reynolds -- 5. Woman supportive or woman manipulative? The 'Mrs Ellis' woman / Henrietta Twycross-Martin -- 6. Mary Wollstonecraft and Flora Tristan; one pariah redeems another / Maire Fedelma Cross -- 7. 'Saintes soeurs' and 'femmes fortes': alternative accounts of the route to womanly civic virtue, and the history of French feminism / Hazel Mills -- 8. Maria Rye: the primrose path / Marion Diamond -- 9. Anthropological analogies: Edith Simcox and Madeleine Pelletier / Felecia Gordon |
| Subject |
Women's rights -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Women's rights -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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| Indexed Term |
Women Rights |
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England |
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France |
| Added Author |
Orr, Clarissa Campbell.
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| ISBN |
0719042410 hardback |
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9780719042416 hardback |
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