Feminism Marriage And The Law In Victorian England 1850 1895

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215987
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350189072
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Marriage and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-95 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Important both for political theorists and for women's studies. She explores with great care and thoroughness the connections between nineteenth century feminist argument and activism on the one hand, and familiar liberal principles of justice and equality on the other” - Nannerl 0. Keohane, Wellesley College Traditional studies of the women's movement in Victorian England focused on the battle for suffrage and other public rights. In this new study, however, Mary Lyndon Shanlev explores how Victorian women campaigned to reform the laws which related to marriage and the married state. Arguing that without a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship there would be no justice for women, they fought a series of campaigns to change laws governing divorce, married women's property, infanticide, protective labour legislation, child custody, wife abuse, marital rape and the “restitution of conjugal rights”. Women involved in these campaigns exposed the connection between the privileged position of men in both public and private life and the reluctance of Parliament to enact the reforms women sought. In a series of case studies Shanley explores the demands of the reformers, and the response of Parliament. In an Epilogue, Shanley warns of the dangers to liberal feminism in relying exclusively on equal rights in the law as a formula for change.

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781850431534
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1851895 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book Feminism, Mariage & the Law in Victorian England, 1850-95 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271007427
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory written by Carole Pateman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Habermas. The collection also includes examinations of the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir that are usually excluded from the works conventionally held to comprise &"Western political thought.&" The essays raise fundamentally important questions about the significance of sexual difference in the great works of political theory and draw attention to neglected arguments and silences in the texts. No single feminist view of either the texts or the theoretical way forward informs these essays. A wide diversity of feminist approaches and theoretical frameworks are represented, forming a rich variety of interpretations and argument about such questions as the patriarchal construction of central political categories, the relation between public and private life, and the problem of equality and difference, including differences among women. This refreshing and stimulating collection will be indispensable for students of political thought and offers all those interested in the connection between the classic writings and current political discussions as accessible introduction to feminist argument.

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Download or read book Women, Marriage and the Law in Victorian Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Victoria came to the throne in 1837, two main factors shaped the lives of her female subjects: on the one hand, the rhetorical claim that marriage and family life were the necessary and sufficient conditions of a woman's fulfilment; on the other, the reality that under the common law principles of coverture a married woman's property, children, and body belonged to her husband, and her legal existence was wholly subsumed in his. The task facing Victorian feminists was to challenge the laws governing property rights, the custody of infants, divorce, prostitution, and the power of the courts to enforce a woman to live with her husband against her will (the doctrine of 'conjugal rights'). In varying degrees they were able to amend each of these laws, but not to achieve their core aims: to abolish the fiction of spousal unity, and to establish co-equal legal and political rights for men and women. That task remained for a later generation of feminists.

Author : Joseph Ambrose Banks
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England written by Joseph Ambrose Banks and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having demonstrated that their economic aspirations and circumstances were a necessary but not a sufficient cause for the onset of family limitation by the English upper and middle classes, another suggested explanation, the emancipation of women, is examined in this study. This shows how the feminists were little involved in the family limitation campaigns, and concludes that such emancipation was less important than the rising standard of living.

Author : Emanuela Bianchi
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810115941
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? written by Emanuela Bianchi and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing attention to the vexed relationship between feminist theory and philosophy, Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? demonstrates the spectrum of significant work being done at this contested boundary. The volume offers clear statements by seventeen distinguished scholars as well as a full range of philosophical approaches; it also presents feminist philosophers in conversation both as feminists and as philosophers, making the book accessible to a wide audience.

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wives and Property written by Lee Holcombe and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367108
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945 written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: