The Woman Question in Europe
A Series of Original Essays

Among the contributors to this 1884 work are many famous names in the struggle for women's rights.

Theodore Stanton (Edited by), Frances Power Cobbe (Introduction by)

9781108084680, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2015

502 pages
23 x 15.3 x 3 cm, 0.76 kg

The American journalist Theodore Stanton (1851–1925), son of the leading feminist and suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, published this remarkable collection of essays in 1884. His intention had been to get from each European country 'the collaboration of one or more women, who … had participated, either actively or in spirit, in some phase of the women's movement'. In seventeen chapters, all but two written by women, the progress of 'the woman question' - the debate on the rights of women to financial independence, higher education and the franchise - across Europe (and in the Ottoman empire) is described, largely for an American and British readership. The work, introduced by the veteran feminist Frances Power Cobbe, has among the contributors (each given a short biography) many famous names in the struggle for women's rights at the end of the nineteenth century, including (from Britain) Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jessie Boucherett and Maria Grey.

Introduction Frances Power Cobbe
Part I. England: 1. The women's suffrage movement Millicent Garrett Fawcett
2. The women's educational movement Maria G. Grey
3. Women in medicine Frances Elizabeth Hoggan
4. The industrial movement Jessie Boucherett
5. Women as philanthropists Henrietta O. Barnett
Part II. Europe: 1. A general review of the women's movement in Germany Anna Schepeler-Lette and Jenny Hirsch
2. The National Association of German Women Marie Calm
3. Holland Elise van Calcar
4. Austria Johanna Leitenberger
5. Norway Camilla Collett
6. Sweden Rosalie Ulrica Olivecrona
7. Denmark Kirstine Frederiksen
8. France Theodore Stanton
9. Italy Aurelia Cimino Folliero de Luna and Dora D'Istria
10. Spain Concepcion Arenal
11. Portugal Rodrigues de Freitas
12. Belgium Isala van Diest
13. Switzerland Maria Goegg
14. Russia Marie Zebrikoff
15. Poland Elise Oresko
16. Bohemia Elise Krasnohorska
17. The Orient Kalliope A. Kehaya
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]