Victorian and Edwardian Anti-Feminism: History of Feminism

Part 1: Education, Law, and Science  Part 2: Working, Professional, and Spiritual Women  Part 3: Marriage, Motherhood and Domesticity  Part 4: Satire  Part 5: Social Change and Leisure  Part 6: Literature  Part 7: Anti-Suffragists  Part 8: Feminism and Militancy  Part 9: Constructive and ‘modern’ anti-feminism  Part 10: War  Part 11: After Suffrage

This new collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse provides the documentary backdrop to this growing critical interest in anti-feminism. Based on the premise that to understand the social and intellectual context of the women’s movement and feminism, it is crucial that all contributions to the debate be explored, and not just those of the ‘winning side’, the collection meets an urgent need to restore to the historical record a sense of how feminism was a deeply marginalized position, and to remember that anti-feminism in many cases better represents public opinion concerning the gender politics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.