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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825095203321

Autore

Green Stephanie <1959->

Titolo

The public lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes / / by Stephanie Green [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2013

ISBN

1-315-65534-9

1-78144-353-X

1-317-32178-2

1-317-32179-0

1-84893-239-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Dramatic lives ; ; no. 2

Disciplina

305.420922

Soggetti

Academic achievement - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Academic achievement - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Feminists - Great Britain

Political activists - Great Britain

Women political activists - Great Britain

Self-presentation - History - 19th century

Self-presentation - History - 20th century

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Machine generated contents note: ; 1. Demands and Desires -- ; 2. Rational Charlotte Stopes -- ; 3. Personal and Political: The 1890s -- ; 4. Pleasure, Drama, Money: The Maturation of Marie Stopes -- ; 5. Search for Recognition -- ; 6. Marie Stopes and the Public Imagination -- ; 7. Citizen Mother.

Sommario/riassunto

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was the first woman in Scotland to gain a university qualification. She devoted her life to the study of Shakespeare and to the promotion of women in public life. Though Charlotte is largely forgotten, her daughter Marie is well known as a



passionate advocate of sex education and women's rights. In this study Green asserts that Marie's success can only be understood in relation to the achievements of her mother. The careers of the two women are further used to argue that scholarly success in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was only possible through sustained engagement with the (male) establishment.