Infidel Feminism - Secularism, Religion and Women''s Emancipation, England 1830-1914

Informationen zum Autor Laura Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Modern British History at the University of Warwick Klappentext The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. Zusammenfassung The first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Freethinking Feminists: women in the Freethought movement2. Counter-Conversions: Freethinking feminists and the renunciation of religion 3. Preachers of Truth: Women's activism in the Secularist movement4. Infidel Feminism: Feminism in the Freethought movement5. Freethinking feminists and the women's movement 6. Freethought and Free Love? Marriage, birth control and sexual morality Conclusion Select bibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Laura Schwartz, Schwartz Laura, Laura Schwarz
• Assisted by: Pamela Sharpe (Editor), Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9780719085826
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8582-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History (Hardcover); Gender in History; Gender in History (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works