Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009411967)

In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced over the span of almost a century, including novels, journals, speeches, pamphlets, and posters, van den Elzen reveals how the women's movement gradually diverged from a position of solidarity with the enslaved into one of opposition, based on hierarchical assumptions about class and race. This inclusive cultural survey provides a new understanding of the ways in which the cultural memory of Anglo-American antislavery was imported and adapted across Europe and the Atlantic world, and it breaks new ground in studying the "woman-slave analogy" from a longitudinal and transnational comparative perspective. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Author: Sophie Van Den Elzen
ISBN-10: 1009411969
ISBN-13: 9781009411967
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2025
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d