Passions of the First Wave Feminists Passions of the First Wave Feminists

Passions of the First Wave Feminists

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Publisher Description

This book reveals an outstanding generation of radical reformers who not only led the world in achieving votes for women, but imagined a

new deal between the sexes that can inspire us still.

First Wave Feminists have been called ‘wowsers’, ‘moralistic’, ‘spoilers of men’s pleasures’. These women of the later nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth have been dismissed as fearsomely respectable, crushingly earnest, socially puritanical, politically limited and

sexually repressed. Passions of the First Wave Feminists is a radical re-appraisal of the God’s Police history of Australian feminism. It offers

a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, and therefore a new view also of politics, nationalism and culture in the 1890s. It shows First Wave Feminists as passionate, challenging convention on every side, visionary, and centrally preoccupied with sex.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2001
1 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
UNSW Press
PROVIDER INFO
NewSouth Books
SIZE
1.6
MB