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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453321403321

Autore

Anderson Bonnie S

Titolo

Joyous greetings [[electronic resource] ] : the first international women's movement, 1830-1860 / / Bonnie S. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-83100-6

9786610831005

0-19-802917-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/09/034

Soggetti

Equality - History - 19th century

Feminism - History - 19th century

Feminism - International cooperation - History - 19th century

Social movements - History - 19th century

Women's rights - History - 19th century

Women's rights - International cooperation - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Panorama; 2. Angels over Amazons; 3. Becoming Rebels; 4. First Connections; 5. Emancipating Themselves; 6. The Pressure Builds; 7. Volcano Time; 8. The Heyday; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, champions of women's rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world's earliest international feminist movement.  Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story.     From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved fullpolitical equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionshi