Ebook: The Nineteenth-Century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World
Author: Sara Delamont, Lorna Duffin
- Tags: Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century., Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century., Women -- Health and hygiene., Feminism -- History -- 19th century., HIS037060, HIS054000, HIS058000
- Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
- City: London, United Kingdom
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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