Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900

by Philippa Levine

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813013216
• ISBN13: 9780813013213
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.7"