Utopian Feminism: Women's Movements in fin-de-siecle Vienna
de Anderson, Harriet
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0300057369
- ISBN 13
- 9780300057362
- Librería
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiii, 322pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Women's movements in Vienna at the turn of the century made valuable and original contributions to social reform, feminist ideology, and artistic and intellectual trends of the era. This book - the first to examine these movements in depth - discusses their historical development, the activities, personalities, and writings of their predominantly middle-class members, and the Viennese culture and politics in which they flourished. Harriet Anderson argues that the movements did not primarily focus on women's rights but were utopian in spirit, seeking to bring about the moral reform of society through women's efforts. She discusses the numerous women's associations that sprang up at the turn of the century, groups that focussed on women's education and employment, legal reform, state-controlled prostitution, and anti-Semitism, among other issues. Examining the General Austrian Women's Association in particular, Anderson reconstructs its history and describes the ideals that informed it, the personal loves and animosities of its leading figures, and the conflicts in which it engaged up to its decline in the chaos of the First World War. Next she critically analyses the feminists' theoretical writings, placing them in their intellectual contexts, investigating their poetics, and showing how they were shaped by various utopian visions. Finally she discusses the women's fictional works, identifying two main groups of feminist writers, one that wrote mainly moral texts supporting the prevalent middle-class code of conduct, and the other that sought to investigate psychological mechanisms and expose deep-rooted oppression.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Women's movements in Vienna at the turn of the century made valuable and original contributions to social reform, feminist ideology, and artistic and intellectual trends of the era. This book - the first to examine these movements in depth - discusses their historical development, the activities, personalities, and writings of their predominantly middle-class members, and the Viennese culture and politics in which they flourished. Harriet Anderson argues that the movements did not primarily focus on women's rights but were utopian in spirit, seeking to bring about the moral reform of society through women's efforts. She discusses the numerous women's associations that sprang up at the turn of the century, groups that focussed on women's education and employment, legal reform, state-controlled prostitution, and anti-Semitism, among other issues. Examining the General Austrian Women's Association in particular, Anderson reconstructs its history and describes the ideals that informed it, the personal loves and animosities of its leading figures, and the conflicts in which it engaged up to its decline in the chaos of the First World War. Next she critically analyses the feminists' theoretical writings, placing them in their intellectual contexts, investigating their poetics, and showing how they were shaped by various utopian visions. Finally she discusses the women's fictional works, identifying two main groups of feminist writers, one that wrote mainly moral texts supporting the prevalent middle-class code of conduct, and the other that sought to investigate psychological mechanisms and expose deep-rooted oppression.(Publisher).
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Detalles
- Librería
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10989
- Título
- Utopian Feminism: Women's Movements in fin-de-siecle Vienna
- Autor
- Anderson, Harriet
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300057369
- ISBN 13
- 9780300057362
- Editorial
- Yale University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New Haven
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
Términos de venta
Underground Books, ABAA
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Sobre el vendedor
Underground Books, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
Sobre Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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