Victorian Feminists (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Caine
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1822-1929
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Josephine Butler, Frances Power Cobbe, Emily Davies, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Education or educators, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Equality, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Great Britain, Victorian era or Victorianism, Celibacy
- Locales: Great Britain
Victorian Feminists focuses on the ideas of four major feminists: Emily Davies, Frances Power Cobbe, Josephine Butler, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Since Victorian feminism, and these four women, have been discussed in previous studies, it is reasonable to ask: Is still another volume on the subject needed? Barbara Caine justifies her book on the grounds that feminism has changed significantly since the 1970’s, and that this necessitates looking at Victorian feminism very differently. Prior to the 1970’s, historians tended to be dismissive of the sexual prudishness...
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