Title: A Theoretical Survey of the British Women's Movement in the 19th Century
Abstract: This paper probes the source of the feminist movement in Britain, and analyses its special features in the 19th century. The feminist movement in Britain was initiated by educated women in their middle class parlors, its aim being to unswervingly fight for women's equal rights within the province of constitutionalism.These educated females effected breakthroughs first in women's right to receive education, the right to guardianship, the right to divorce and the property right, and attained certain rights in local politics, thus taking the first step in the struggle for equal rights and equal status with the opposite sex and bringing to fruition the change of women from being an appendage to men to an independent woman. All this was an outcome of the struggle of the feminist movement pioneers. It was also an inevitable product of the economic and political democratization in Britain, as well as a result of the English people from their quest for truth from experience and from their rational thinking in a male-supreme society.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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