Arianne Chernock

The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captivated feminist activists - with profound consequences for nineteenth-century culture and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484848
• ISBN-10: 1108484840
• Artikelnr.: 55295868

Autorenporträt

Arianne Chernock is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Her first book, Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism (2010), was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies. She frequently contributes to print, television and radio outlets.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: a mad, wicked folly?
1. The radicalism of female rule in eighteenth-century Britain
2. 'An argument of a very popular character': Queen Victoria in the early women's movement, c. 1832-76
3. Rethinking the 'right to rule' in Victorian Britain
4. The anti-suffragists' Queen
5. 'No more fitting commemoration'?: Reclaiming Victoria for the women's movement during the Golden and Diamond Jubilees
Conclusion: Queen Victoria versus the suffragettes: the politics of queenship in Edwardian Britain
A note on sources
Bibliography
Index.