The nineteenth-century woman : her cultural and physical world / / edited by Sara Delamont and Lorna Duffin

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.41/2/09034; 301.41209034; 305.4209034
• Soggetto topico: Women - United States - History - 19th century; Women - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women - Health and hygiene; Feminism - History - 19th century
• Altri autori: DelamontSara <1947-> DuffinLorna
• Note generali: "First published in 1978"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conspicuous Consumptive: Woman as an Invalid; 3. Prisoners of Progress: Women and Evolution; 4. Fitness, Feminism and Schooling; 5. The Contradictions in Ladies' Education; 6. The Domestic Ideology and Women's Education; 7. George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of ""the lady"" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman's cultural and physical world.
• Titolo autorizzato: The nineteenth-century woman
• ISBN: 1-136-24824-2; 0-203-10411-0; 1-283-89520-X; 1-136-24825-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779441903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Women's history.