The Feminine Public Sphere: Middle-Class Women and Civic Life in Scotland, c.1870-1914

by Megan Smitley

At a time when women were barred from clerical roles, middle-class women made use of the informal power structures of Victorian and Edwardian associationalism in order to actively participate as citizens. This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719079667
• ISBN13: 9780719079665
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"