The Nineteenth-century Woman

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The Nineteenth-century Woman is written by Sara Delamont and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136248242 (ISBN 10) and 9781136248245 (ISBN 13).

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.