The woman movement : feminism in the United States and England
1969, First Edition. London New York : Allen and Unwin ; Barnes and Noble. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #356613
Physical description: 208 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Women United States. Women Great Britain. Feminism Great Britain. Feminism United States. Genre: History. Language: English. Summary: Subject: This book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and to a lesser extent in England. It starts with Mary Wollstonecraft and traces the development of the attack on Victorian institutions right up to the 1920s and on to the "permissive" society in which we live. "The Victorians had resolved to destroy the double standard of morals by compelling men to be as chaste as women. This proved to be unfeasible...If men and women could not be equally chaste, they could, at least, be equally promiscuous." But the story covers all facets of the movement: the struggle for enfranchisement, for property rights, and education, for working women in industry, for temperance and social reform. These remarkable women leaders live in these pages, but even more in the documents which form the second part of the book. Here their own voices come to us across the years with a sincerity which gives life to the language of a past age.
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