From the “Angel in the House” to the Suffragette: How the New Woman Crossed the Border Between the Private and the Public Spheres, Great Britain, 1854-1918
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26 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.30115
- isbn: 9791034401260
- eisbn: 9791034403813
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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Laurence Cristina, « From the “Angel in the House” to the Suffragette: How the New Woman Crossed the Border Between the Private and the Public Spheres, Great Britain, 1854-1918 », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.30115
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While women officially have the same rights as men in Western societies, it still remains to be proved that they are considered fully equal. This discrepancy between theory and practice has always existed and one glance at British history and more specifically at the Victorian and Edwardian periods exemplifies how the border separating men and women has evolved over time. This paper aims at analysing the presence and the evolution of that border between 1854 and 1918, a time when rebellious w...