Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, 1750-1880
by Susan G. Bell (Editor), Karen M. Offen (Editor)
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This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issues—motherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and labor—extended to women the struggle by men for personal and show more political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time. show lessTags
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Susan Groag Bell is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.
Karen Offen is a historian and independent scholar, affiliated as a Senior Scholar with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. Her previous publications include European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History (2000).
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, 1750-1880
- People/Characters
- Germaine de Staël; Mary Wollstonecraft; Catharine Macaulay; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; Nicolas de Condorcet; Hannah More (show all 9); Olympe de Gouges; George Sand; Caroline Norton
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- Genres
- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 305.4 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women
- LCC
- HQ1588 .W645 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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