By Barbara Korte
Volume 96, Issue 4, May 2015
The article offers a first exploration of the contribution of women's magazines to mid-Victorian historical culture. Distinguished by a special heterogeneity in form and content,…
By Julia Bush
Volume 34, Issue 4, Jul 2005
The article discusses contributions towards female higher education made by a group of women whose views on gender roles were conservative, rather than feminist or…
By Li-Wen Chang
Volume 39, Issue 4, Apr 2010
“[T]he greatest writer that the feminists ever produced on sociology and economics” (Sinclair 272), Charlotte Perkins Gilman pioneered the discussion of women's enforced economic parasitism…
By Livia Arndal Woods
Volume 37, Issue 2, Mar 2015
“Any truly [wholesome life such as will best maintain a woman's own health, that she may use it for the good of others] ought to…
By Caroline Austin-Bolt
Volume 37, Issue 3, May 2015
As both a reaction and a complement to Lockean liberalism and the mechanism of capitalist markets, separate spheres ideology fostered an expectation that domestic women…
By Joanna de Groot
Volume 21, Issue 3, Dec 2010
This article draws on the experience of investigating and interpreting histories of ‘women’, ‘feminists’ and ‘feminism’ in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In…
By Laura Schwartz
Volume 21, Issue 3, Dec 2010
This article examines Victorian debates on scriptural interpretation and women's rights, when feminists and anti-feminists, Christians and secularists battled over whether the Bible assigned women…
By Caroline Bressey
Volume 21, Issue 3, Dec 2010
Towards the end of the nineteenth century some individuals, such as the African-American Ida B. Wells, began to write about the close connections between racial…
By Cynthia Belaskie
Volume 23, Issue 1, Mar 2012
Miss Ada Finney ‘felt such a call to the mission field that she dared not disobey.’1 So on 5 July 5 1893 she stood before…
By Ellen Jordan; Anne Bridger
Volume 15, Issue 3, Jul 2006
In 1859 Jessie Boucherett, the daughter of a Lincolnshire landowner possessed of an independent income, was inspired by press discussions of the need to find…
By Florence Rochefort
Volume 17, Issue 2, Apr 2008
Tommy Fallot (1844–1904) is a little‐known figure in the history of French abolitionism; a recent discovery of private archives has made it possible to throw…
By Petra De Vries
Volume 17, Issue 2, Apr 2008
The history of Dutch abolitionism within the wider international context highlights the complex relationship between abolitionism and feminism. Feminism and abolitionism were intricately related, both…
By Trisha Franzen
Volume 17, Issue 3, Jul 2008
When the Rev. Dr Anna Howard Shaw became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), her status as a single, self‐supporting woman forced…
By Julie Carlier
Volume 19, Issue 4, Sep 2010
The history of Belgian feminism before World War I has hitherto been written almost exclusively from within a national framework. Using the perspective of ‘entangled…
By Anne Cova
Volume 19, Issue 4, Sep 2010
This article approaches international feminisms in historical comparative perspective by looking at three feminist federations, called national councils of women, that were established in France,…
By June Purvis
Volume 22, Issue 4, Aug 2013
The historiography of the British women's suffrage campaign is contested ground. This article, written by a feminist historian, contributes to the debate by offering some…
By Jessica P. Clark
Volume 22, Issue 6, Dec 2013
As a fictional personality trading as ‘Mrs Pomeroy’, Jeannette Scalé dominated London's elite beauty market through the late nineteenth century. By 1906, her control over…
By Nicoletta F. Gullace
Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2014
This article examines the roots of Christabel Pankhurst's Women's Party in the Women's Social and Political Union's adoption of right-wing feminism during the Great War.…
By Ingrid Sharp
Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2014
German women were working within a context strikingly different from either the USA or the UK following the granting of suffrage in 1918. Focusing on…
By Amanda Harris
Volume 23, Issue 1, Jan 2014
The period 1880–1930 saw women composers achieve unprecedented prominence as composers of large-scale works. This success coincided with the first wave of feminist movements in…
By Tara M. McCarthy
Volume 23, Issue 2, Mar 2014
Nationalism first brought Irish-American women into a political struggle in the late nineteenth century, a role that did not go unnoticed by suffragists, who reached…
By Rachael Attwood
Volume 24, Issue 3, May 2015
The National Vigilance Association was the most prominent organization to take on the fight against sex trafficking in turn-of-the-century Britain. In 1899, it established and…
By James Keating
Volume 25, Issue 2, Mar 2016
Over the past decade, historians have situated feminist reformers’ efforts to dismantle the British imperial contagious diseases apparatus at the heart of the transnational turn…
By Elsie B. Michie
Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2011
This article positions Frances Trollope's One Fault (1840) between Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right (1869). All…
By Lisa Hager
Volume 20, Issue 2, May 2013
Exemplifying the connections between the mid- and late-centuries, the late nineteenth-century work of Ouida suggests a continued mobilization of sensational vocabularies of representation, specifically the…
