Infidel feminism: Secularism, religion and women's emancipation, England 1830–1914
Laura Schwartz
Abstract
This book studies a distinctive brand of women's rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement, and looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement. In uncovering an important tradition of freethinking feminism, the book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite ... More
Keywords: women's rights, Victorian Secularist movement, female activists, feminist thought, Victorian women's movement, Edwardian women's movement, Owenite feminism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719085826 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2013 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719085826.001.0001 |
