{"product_id":"women-in-public-1850-1900","title":"Women in Public, 1850-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eAssembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen’s pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women: ‘surplus women’ and the issue of emigration; women’s work and male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard, led by Josephine Butler; women’s public service from philanthropy – exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill – to local government; and finally women’s entry into politics led by Lydia Becker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant’s inspiration of the match-girl’s strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War’s \u003cem\u003eAppeal \u003c\/em\u003eagainst female suffrage in 1889.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was originally published in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234347503960,"sku":"9780415623476","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415623476_e2dfded5-cfcf-4c69-87bf-d3fe0c1f0cc0.jpg?v=1769544042","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/women-in-public-1850-1900","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}