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  • von Mineke Bosch

    In a letter dated February 15, 1882 Theodore Stanton (1851-1925), the son of the American women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) invited the prominent Dutch educational reformer, Elise van Calcar (1822-1904), to contribute to his project of compiling an overview of the “women question in Europe.” She probably owed this request to her presence at the International Congress of Women in Paris in 1878. In his letter, he explained that his mother “qui depuis bien des années s’occupe de la question du droit des femmes,” and two other women were compiling a History of Woman Suffrage in the US, the first volume of which had been published in 1881. For the second volume they had asked the British suffragist Lydia Becker to write a chapter on “le movement des femmes en Angleterre,” and, to make things complete, “on se propose de faire un dernier chapître où se trouvera un compte-rendu de ce qui a été fait à ce sujet sur le continent.” [...]

  • von Peter N. Stearns

    Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderst erstarkte die Frauenbewegung in vielen Ländern. In Europa und Amerika bildeten sich zahlreiche internationale feministische Verbände, die neben einer Vielzahl politischer Ziele vor allem auch allgemeine gesellschaftliche Reformen propagierten und anstrebten.[...]