This comparative study analyses the emergence of feminist movements and their differing characters in Britain, France and the United States. Jane Rendall examines the social, economic and cultural factors which affected women's status in society, and led some women to act, individually and collectively, to seek to change it.The Enlightenment emphasis on women's 'nature' and the evangelical stress on the moral potential of women contributed to a framework of ideas which could be used by conservatives and by feminists. Among the middle classes, discussion focused on the need to improve women's education and on the strengths and limitations of domesticity. Patterns of paid employment for women were shifting, and Jane Rendall suggests that the weak position of women in the labor market during the early stages of industrialisation restricted their ability to associate together. Yet involvement in religious, political and philanthropic movements could provide a means by which women might come together to identify their common concerns and learn the necessary political skills.Jane Rendall places the origins of feminism in the broader context of social and political change in the nineteenth century, looking both at the changing relationship between paid work and domestic life and at the links between feminism and class and political conflict in three different societies.

The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860 (Themes in Comparative History, 5)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rendall, Jane

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

<p>Using insights from history, literature, sociology and philosophy, Sexuality and Subordination examines the construction of gender in nineteenth century Britain and France.</p>

Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century

History

Mendus, Susan

Europe

Routledge

Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867

<p>Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.</p>

Hall, Catherine

McClelland, Keith

Cambridge University Press

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1984 Schocken hardcover, Jane Rendall (Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750 - 1880 (Historical Association Studies)). This comparative study analyses the emergence of feminist movements and their differing characters in Britain, France and the United States. Jane Rendall examines the social, economic and cultural factors which affected women's status in society, and led some women to act, individually and collectively, to seek to change it. The Enlightenment emphasis on women's 'nature' and the evangelical stress on the moral potential of women contributed to a framework of ideas which could be used by conservatives and by feminists. - Google Books

The Origins of Modern Feminism

Women's Studies

Schocken

The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France, and the United States, 1780-1860

World

Lyceum Books

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