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The Nineteenth-century Woman : Her Cultural and Physical World.
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 bo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge library editions. Women's history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781136248252 1136248250 |