Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830 - 1860

Bonnie S Anderson (Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Centre, Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York)

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830 - 1860
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
17 May 2001
Pages
304
ISBN
9780195143973

Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830 - 1860

Bonnie S Anderson (Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Centre, Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York)

Over one hundred fifty years ago, champions of women’s rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world’s earliest international feminist movement. Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story. From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved full political equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionship, claimed the right to divorce and to get custody of their children, and argued that an unjust economic system forced women into poorly paid jobs. They rejected the traditional view that women’s subordination was preordained, natural, and universal. In restoring these daring activists’ achievements to history, Joyous Greetings passes on their inspiring and empowering message to today’s new generation of feminists.

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