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<p>Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual domesticity or church governance.' She wanted and needed to work. Meticulous, resonant, original, triumphant, <i>Independent Women</i> tells of the efforts and endurance of this Victorian woman; of her courage and the constraints that she rejected, accepted, and created. . . . The independent women are the 'foremothers' of any women today who seeks significant work, emotionally satisfying friendships, and a morally charged freedom."—from the Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson</p> <p>"Feminist insight combines with vast research to produce a dramatic narrative. <i>Independent Women</i> chronicles the energetic lives and imaginative communal structures invented by women who 'pioneered new occupations, new living conditions, and new public roles.'"—Lee R. Edwards, <i>Ms.</i></p> <p>"Vicinus is to be congratulated for her brave and unflinching portraits of twisted spinsters as well as stolid saints. That she stretches her net up into the '20s and covers the women's suffrage momement is a brilliant stroke, for one may see clearly how it wa

Author

Martha Vicinus; Catharine R. Stimpson

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780860686101

Subjects

Sociology, History, Gender Studies