English feminism, 1780-1980

Abstract

CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION 1. Feminism and the Rights of Women Socia change and sexual difference in the late eighteenth century Mary Wollstonecraft and the origins of modern Feminism Feminism and the Woman question 2. Feminism and the Women Question in the early Nineteenth Century Men in feminism: William Thompson and the Unitarian radicals The tragic tale of Caroline Norton Harriet Martineau and the slow development of feminist consciousness Feminism, Evangelicalism, and 'Women's sphere' 3. Mid-Victorian Feminism The Langham Place circle and the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft Feminism, liberalism, and the problem of sexual oppression Feminist campaigns and feminist strategies Nation and empire in Victorian feminism 4. The New Woman and the Militant Feminism and the new woman Feminism, the labour movement, and working-class women Militancy Feminism and imperialism 5. Feminism and the Woman Citizen in the Inter-War Years The legacy of War A feminist programme Training women for citizenship Feminist questions and party politics From politics to culture: feminist theory in the 1920s and 1930s Feminism and internationalism 6. The Post-War World The impact of war Feminist organizations and the feminist agenda The woman question in the 1950s and 1960s AFTERWORD: FROM FEMINISM TO FEMINISMS NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX