Josephine Butler and the Social Purity Feminists
Their Relevance at the End of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14948641 |
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| Authors | Joy McGibben (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 39-53 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/096673509500000804 |
| OpenAlex | W1977260331 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
There was one kind of equality, one sort of liberation about which nineteenth-century feminists found it embarassing to speak. Higher education for women, better employment opportunities for women, protection at law for women—those were all good, clean, decent issues. Nobody was afraid to voice opinions upon them, nobody ashamed to sign their name on a petition. But the attack on that infamous 'double-standard', which so bedevilled relationships between the sexes in Victorian times did not attract such eager support. Even the bravest of the self-confessed feminists trembled at the implications of involving themselves in that particular fight (Forster 1984: 169)
nobody · Political science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
Feminist theory
Equal opportunities
Backlash
A Singular Iniquity
The Chalice and the Blade
The Sexuality Debates
Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade
Prostitution and Victorian Society
Feminism and the family in England, 1880–1939
The spinster and her enemies
The strange death of Liberal England
The Strange Death of Liberal England
Significant Sisters
| Highly cited | No |
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