Women in the 19th Century - Jane Rendall (Essay Date 1985)
JANE RENDALL (ESSAY DATE 1985)
SOURCE: Rendall, Jane. Introduction to The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States 1780-1860, pp. 1-6. London, England: Macmillan, 1985.
In the following essay, Rendall argues that a comparison between the rise of feminist sentiment in England, France, and the United States helps in understanding the domestic life and social aspirations of women between 1780 and 1860.
In a sense the title of this book is anachronistic. The English word 'feminism' was not in use within this period. The French word féminisme was coined by the Utopian socialist, Charles Fourier, and used only by him. The first recorded use of the term in English, derived from the French, was in 1894, according to the 1933 Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. The relevant volume of the Dictionary itself was written from 1894 to 1897 and...
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