Table of Contents

Chronology
Introduction
1: Feminism and the Rights of Women
Social change and sexual difference in the late eighteenth century
Mary Wollstonecraft and the origins of modern Feminism
Feminism and the Woman question
2: Feminism and the Women Question in the early Nineteenth Century
Men in feminism: William Thompson and the Unitarian radicals
The tragic tale of Caroline Norton
Harriet Martineau and the slow development of feminist consciousness
Feminism, Evangelicalism, and `Women's sphere'
3: Mid-Victorian Feminism
The Langham Place circle and the ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft
Feminism, liberalism, and the problem of sexual oppression
Feminist campaigns and feminist strategies
Nation and empire in Victorian feminism
4: The New Woman and the Militant
Feminism and the new woman
Feminism, the labour movement, and working-class women
Militancy
Feminism and imperialism
5: Feminism and the Woman Citizen in the Inter-War Years
The legacy of the War
A feminist programme
Training women for citizenship
Feminist questions and party politics
From politics to culture: feminist theory in the 1920s and 1930s
Feminism and internationalism
6: The Post-War World
The impact of war
Feminist organizations and the feminist agenda
The woman question in the 1950s and 1960s
Afterword: From Feminism to Feminisms
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Reviews

As with his earlier life of Hartington, Jackson's biography is a welcome and most useful addition to our understanding of a significant political figure, whose legislative legacy is still very much around us./Allen Warren/EHR February 1999, vol.CXIV No 455.
`provides a welcome synthesis of a generation of scholarship on feminism as political movement and ideology ... her account highlights a wide variety of individuals, movements, and texts ... for those unfamiliar with the vast literature on English feminism, this is a smart and helpful guide ... Caine's analysis is most innovative where she fills persistent lacunae in historians' accounts of feminism'
Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Catholic University of America, Twentieth Century British History, vol 10, no 2 1999