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Tag: Frances Power Cobbe

The impact of the idea of ‘social purity’ on first wave feminism

Posted on November 23, 2012 by JL Admin

The first wave movement in America and Britain was a direct result of the existing interconnections between the physiological rights and political rights of women in the nineteenth century. This meant that the feminists strove to bring about just laws for protecting women’s rights. They attempted to purify the society of immoral practices such as…

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