Over one hundred fifty years ago, champions of women’s rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world’s earliest international feminist movement. Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story.
From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved full political equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionship, claimed the right to divorce and to get custody of their children, and argued that an unjust economic system forced women into poorly paid jobs. They rejected the traditional view that women’s subordination was preordained, natural, and universal. In restoring these daring activists’ achievements to history, Joyous Greetings passes on their inspiring and empowering message to today’s new generation of feminists.
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830-1860
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very, very good fundamental text on American and feminist history I’m working on my graduate thesis on American commodities in the nineteenth century and needed to pull together influences from the culture to explain why some industries boomed, and how they in turn changed the culture. That means I needed basic, serious scholarship on the ideas that were compelling people at the time, in this case in the realm of “human rights.” This text more than fulfills that need, it is a very, very, good piece of scholarship.