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Format: xiv, 428 p.

ISBN: 0-8047-6707-6 , 1-4175-1943-6

Content: The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at a different pace and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women’s emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader context to the movement by including countries both large and small from all regions of Europe. Fourteen historians, all of them specialists in women’s history, examine the origins and development of women’s emancipation movements in their respective areas of expertise. By exploring the cultural and political diversity of nineteenth-century Europe and at the same time pointing out connections to questions explored by conventional scholarship, the essays shed new light on common developments and problems.

Note: Papers from an international conference financed by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the Baden-Wurttemberg Ministry of Science, and the University of Tubingen. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contributors -- , Part I Introduction -- , Chapter 1 Concepts and Issues -- , Chapter 2 Challenging Male Hegemony: Feminist Criticism and the Context for Women’s Movements in the Age of European Revolutions and Counterrevolutions, 1789‒1860 -- , Part II Western and Central Europe -- , Chapter 3 Recovering Lost Political Cultures: British Feminisms, 1860–1900 -- , Chapter 4 History and Historiography of First-Wave Feminism in the Netherlands, 1860–1922 -- , Chapter 5 The French Feminist Movement and Republicanism, 1868–1914 -- , Chapter 6 The Women’s Movement in Germany in an International Context -- , Part III Northern Europe -- , Chapter 7 Modernity and the Norwegian Women’s Movement from the 1880s to 1914: Changes and Continuities -- , Chapter 8 Gender and Feminism in Sweden: The Fredrika Bremer Association -- , Part IV East Central and Eastern Europe -- , Chapter 9 The Emancipation of Women for the Benefit of the Nation: The Czech Women’s Movement -- , Chapter 10 Sisters or Foes: The Shifting Front Lines of the Hungarian Women’s Movements, 1896–1918 -- , Chapter 11 The Polish Women’s Movement to 1914 -- , Chapter 12 Feminism and Equality in an Authoritarian State: The Politics of Women’s Liberation in Late Imperial Russia -- , Part V Southern Europe -- , Chapter 13 The Rise of the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth-Century Spain -- , Chapter 14 National and Gender Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Greece -- , Part VI Comparative Views -- , Chapter 15 British and American Feminism: Personal, Intellectual, and Practical Connections -- , Chapter 16 Women’s Emancipation Movements in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century: Conclusions -- , Notes -- , Supplementary Bibliography -- , Index of Names , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8047-4764-4

Language: English

Subjects: History

DOI: 10.1515/9780804767071