{"product_id":"women-in-public-1850-1900-documents-of-the-victorian-womens-movement-9780415752558","title":"Women in Public, 1850-1900: Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patricia Hollis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women's movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen's pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women: 'surplus women' and the issue of emigration; women's work and male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard, led by Josephine Butler; women's public service from philanthropy - exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill - to local government; and finally women's entry into politics led by Lydia Becker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant's inspiration of the match-girl's strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War's \u003cem\u003eAppeal \u003c\/em\u003eagainst female suffrage in 1889.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was originally published in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45236583825559,"sku":"9780415752558","price":4068.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415752558.webp?v=1769213639","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/women-in-public-1850-1900-documents-of-the-victorian-womens-movement-9780415752558","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}