Helena M. Swanwick

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The Future of the Women's Movement (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Those who open this book expecting to find in it a romantic sketch, rather in the style of Erewhon , of what the civilisation of the twentieth century is likely to be after women have won their freedom, will be doomed to disappointment. It does not deal with what a humorist in the Cambridge Historical Society used to call “that department of history which treats of the future.” Those who look for a plentiful supply of prophecy will not find it; but they will find a masterly sketch of the sources and aims of the women’s movement; and, in the author’s own words, a brief survey of the directions in which it appears to be travelling. They will find also wisdom, and knowledge, and understanding. Mrs. Swanwick avoids cheap and easy generalisation. She writes from a wide and deep knowledge, which has been gained from years of active work, especially in the women’s suffrage movement as it exists here and now; and she writes with the temperance and restraint which come of the philosophic mind.

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Autor

Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick CH was a British feminist and pacifist. Her autobiography, I Have Been Young (1935), provides a fascinating account of the non-militant women's suffrage struggle in the United Kingdom and anti-war campaigning during World War I, as well as philosophical debates of nonviolence. Swanwick's name and photograph, along with 58 other women's suffrage advocates, appear on the plinth of Millicent Fawcett's statue in Parliament Square, London, which was unveiled in April 2018. Swanwick was born in Munich, the only child of Eleanor Louisa Henry and Danish painter Oswald Sickert. Swanwick's brother was painter Walter Sickert. Her maternal grandmother was an Irish dancer who became pregnant with astronomer Richard Sheepshanks, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Swanwick's feminist beliefs were informed by his reading of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1869). She attended Girton College in Cambridge before being employed as a psychology instructor at Westfield College in 1885. She married Frederick Swanwick, a Manchester University lecturer, in 1888.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Skyline
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788827556092
• Artikelnr.: 50876688