Actes
Subtitle: compte-rendu des séances plénières
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: A. Ghio
Published: 1878
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Women; Congresses; Legal status, laws
Description: This report provides a detailed overview of the themes and discussions of the International Congress on Women's Rights, which was held in Paris in 1878 and included delegates from France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Russia, and the United States. After the opening session, the second session inquired into the history of feminist demands made in France and elsewhere and places women's rights in the context of humankind's march toward progress. The third session looks at education, particularly women's eligibility to receive general and work-related training as a means of improving their social and political situations. Related, the fourth and fifth sessions discuss women's labor, including women's domestic labor and strategies to overcome prejudice and discrimination in the workplace. The sixth and seventh sessions looked at the uneven concept of morality, which is understood as a series of guiding social "laws" influencing how men and women are expected to behave separately. The final sessions of the conference investigated women's position in relation to laws and legislation, including regulations on prostitution, from a largely French perspective.
Notes: At head of title: ... Congrès international du droit des femmes, ouvert à Paris, le 25 juillet 1878, clos le 9 août suivant.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Public Library.