The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical WorldSara Delamont, Lorna Duffin This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Dedication | 8 |
1 Introduction | 9 |
Woman as an Invalid | 26 |
Women and Evolution | 57 |
4 Fitness Feminism and Schooling | 92 |
5 The Contradictions in Ladies Education | 134 |
6 The Domestic Ideology and Womens Education | 164 |
7 George Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft | 188 |
Notes on Contributors | 206 |
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