Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy And The Victorian Feminist Movement
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Author | : Maureen Wright |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847797628 |
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement. A pacifist, humanitarian ‘free-thinker’, Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as ‘first’ among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain’s great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an ‘initiator’ of many high-profile campaigns from the nineteenth into the twentieth century. Wright draws on an extensive resource of unpublished correspondence and other sources to produce an enduring portrait that does justice to Wolstenholme Elmy’s momentous achievements.
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Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Feminism |
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This article seeks to re-evaluate the life of first-wave feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy through the lens of her own autobiographical fragments and newly-discovered material concerning her genealogy and childhood familial circumstances. One of the most significant but under-researched feminists of her generation, the 'self' constructed by Wolstenholme Elmy is one that appears to negate the influences of youthful familial circumstances on her later life and career--a career she deemed worthy of auto/biographical narration. This supports her forcefully expressed opinion that analysis of the private 'self' was an unsuitable subject for biographical study: an 'impudent intrusion' of little value when assessing a subject's historical merit, a view this article seeks to contend. By acknowledging the complex reflexive nature of the auto/biographical process and thus the biographer's inability to provide an 'essence' of the subject's 'self', the article offers a construction of how the events of Wolstenholme Elmy's childhood might have impacted on her intellectual and emotional pre-disposition to adopt the cause of feminism. The portrait of Wolstenholme Elmy as expressed by this article contrasts with the largely negative impression of her character gained from analysis of the headline accounts of the nineteenth-century women's emancipation struggle and the 'classic' feminist memoirs upon which those accounts were, in part, based. As such the article builds upon recent revisionist accounts that have highlighted the importance of Wolstenholme Elmy's life to the study of the Victorian feminist movement.
Author | : Mary Lyndon Shanley |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691215987 |
Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.
Author | : John Hendry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2024-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198910231 |
The first scholarly biography of Emily Davies, a central figure in the women's movement of the long 1860s, and a significant new account of that movement, including its institutional origins; its social, political, religious and intellectual allegiances; and its relation to other major social and intellectual developments of the period.
Author | : Laura Schwarz |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1526130661 |
Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women’s movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women’s movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century. This book will be invaluable to both scholars and students of social and cultural history and feminist thought, and to interdisciplinary studies of religion and secularisation, as well as those interested in the history of women’s movements more broadly.
Author | : Philippa Levine |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2018-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063884 |
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women’s movement that celebrated its female identity, its campaigns “concerned as much with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for equality with men.” Levine traces the changing face of a half century of England’s feminist movement, the personalities who dominated it, its pressing issues, and the tactics employed in the fight. Political themes common to the specific protests, she finds, included women’s moral superiority, a close-knit sense of a supportive female community, and a conscious woman-centeredness of interests. Along the way, Levine puts to rest many inaccuracies and assumptions that have dogged the history of presuffragette feminism, causing it to be discredited or dismissed. She refutes, for example, the judgement that the movement served only the needs of bourgeois women, and she warns against the pitfall of defining feminism by the standards of a male politics whose practices make comparisons inadequate and unsuitable. Levine has organized her study with an eye to the breadth of concerns that characterized England’s nineteenth-century feminism: women’s entry into education and the professions; trade unionism, working conditions, equal pay; suffrage and other political and property rights for women; marriage and morality issues—prostitution, incest, venereal disease, wife abuse, pornography, and equal rights to divorce.
Author | : Simha Goldin |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526148277 |
Goldin’s study explores the relationships between men and women within Jewish society living in Germany, northern France and England among the Christian population over a period of some 350 years. Looking at original Hebrew sources to conduct a social analysis, he takes us from the middle of the tenth century until the middle of the second half of the fourteenth century, when the Christian population had expelled the Jews from almost all of the places they were living. Particularly fascinating are the attitudes towards women, as well as their changes in social status. By examining the factors involved in these issues, including views of the leadership, economic influences, internal power politics and gender struggles, Goldin's book provides a greater understanding of the functioning of these communities. This volume will be of great interest to historians of medieval Europe, gender and religion.
Author | : June Purvis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 113434192X |
Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the twentieth century. This fascinating full-length biography draws upon new approaches to feminist biography to place her within the context of her family and friends.
Author | : Caitriona Beaumont |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784991953 |
After an extremely successful debut in hardback, Housewives and citizens is now available in paperback for the first time. This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64. The book challenges existing histories of the women’s movement that suggest the movement went into decline during the inter-war period, only to be revived by the emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. It is argued that the term 'women’s movement' must be revised to allow a broader understanding of female agency encompassing feminist, political, religious and conservative women’s groups who campaigned to improve the status of women throughout the twentieth century. The book provides a radical re-assessment of this period of women’s history and in doing so makes a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the shape and impact of the women’s movement in twentieth-century Britain.
Author | : Melanie Tebbutt |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526130734 |
This original and fresh approach to the emotions of adolescence focuses on the leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the inter-war years. Being Boys challenges many stereotypes about their behaviour. It offers new perspectives on familiar and important themes in interwar social and cultural history, ranging from the cinema and mass consumption to boys’ clubs, personal advice pages, street cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body. It draws on many autobiographies and personal accounts and is particularly distinctive in offering an unusual insight into working-class adolescence through the teenage diaries of the author’s father, which are interwoven with the book’s broader analysis of contemporary leisure developments. Being Boys will be of interest to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences and is also relevant to those teaching and studying in the fields of child development, education, and youth and community studies.