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Slavery in the international women's movement, 1832-1914
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- Book Synopsis
- 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Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model.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.
- About The Author
- Sophie van den Elzen is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University. She is a specialist on the interrelationships of social movements, culture, and memory.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781009411967
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, (04 June 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 331
- Weight
- 610 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 160 x 24 mm
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