Nineteenth-Century Woman

<p>This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.</p><p>Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of the lady and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman's cultural and physical world.</p>