The Spectacle of Women
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: August 10, 1989
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780701135577
Subjects: Illustration & commercial art; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Women's studies; World history: c 1750 to c 1900
First sentence: The origins of nineteenth-century feminism lay in the period between 1780 and 1830, within the complex of social, economic and political up-heavals that accompanied the industrial revolution and England's counter-revolutionary war against France.