Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism

by Rosalind Rosenberg

Book Overview

"With superb insight and erudition Rosenberg discerns the connections between social science and feminism which replaced the ideal of 'true womanhood' with 'the new woman' at the turn of the 20th century. Besides brilliantly illuminating the personalities and ideas which led from one intellectual era to another, the book contributes groundbreaking research to the question of feminism's fate in the 1920s."-- Nancy F. Cott
"Weaving anecdote and analysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300030924
• ISBN13: 9780300030921
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"