European feminisms, 1700-1950 : a political history

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European feminisms, 1700-1950 : a political history

Karen Offen

Stanford University Press, 2000

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Bibliography: p. 509-520

Includes and index

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This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe. It focuses especially on France, but it also offers comparative material on developments in the German-speaking countries and in the smaller European nations and aspiring nation-states. Spanning 250 years, the sweeping coverage extends from Portugal to Poland, Greece to Finland, Ireland to Ukraine, and Spain to Scandinavia-as well as international and transnational feminist organizations. The study has several objectives. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical record, it provides a comprehensive, comparative account of feminist developments in European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective. By placing gender, or relations between women and men, at the center of European politics, where the author argues that it belongs but from which it has long been marginalized, the book aims to reconfigure our understanding of the European past and to make visible a long but neglected tradition of feminist thought and politics. On another level, by providing a broad and accurate historical analysis, the book seeks to disentangle some misperceptions and to demystify some confusing contemporary debates about the Enlightenment, reason, nature, equality vs. difference, and public vs. private, among others. The author argues that historical feminisms offer us far more than logical paradoxes and contradictions; feminisms are about sexual politics, not philosophy. Feminist victories are not, strictly speaking, about getting the argument right, nor is gender merely "a useful category of analysis"; sexual difference lies at the heart of human thought and politics.

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Preface Chronology: a framework for the study of European feminisms Prologue: history, memory, and empowerment 1. Thinking about feminism in European history Part I. The Eighteenth Century: 2. Reclaiming the enlightenment for feminism 3. Challenging masculine aristocracy: feminism and the French Revolution Part II. The Nineteenth Century: 4. Rearticulating feminist claims, 1820-1848 5. Birthing the 'Women question', 1848-1870 6. Internationalizing feminism, 1870-1890 7. Feminist challenges and antifeminist responses, 1890-1914 8. Nationalizing feminisms and feminizing nationalisms, 1890-1914 Part III. The Twentieth Century: 9. Feminism under fire: World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Great Backlash, 1914-1930s 10. Feminist dilemmas in postwar national political cultures: England, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Germany 11. More feminisms in national settings: Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden 12. Globalizing and politicizing European feminist international activity, 1919-1945 Epilogue: Reinventing the wheel? Notes Bibliography Index.

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