Sex and Suffrage in Britain 1860-1914 - Couverture rigide

Kent, Susan Kingsley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691635277 ISBN 13 : 9780691635279

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Although other historians have viewed the suffrage movement as aimed at exclusively political ends, she argues that such a categorization ignores many of the most compelling reasons why thousands of middle and upper-class women risked ostracism, obloquy, and, often, physical harm in the pursuit of the right to vote and why their efforts met with such intense opposition. The alliance of respectable" middle-class women with prostitutes, the attack on marriage, and the suffragists' distrust of the medical profession are among the topics the author addresses. Drawing on hypotheses advanced by Michel Foucault, she asserts that feminists sought no less than the total transformation of the lives of women. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691635277
• ISBN 13: 9780691635279
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308