The rise of caring power : Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands / Annemieke van Drenth, Francisca de Haan.

By:

Drenth, Annemieke van, 1954- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Haan, Francisca de, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9053563857
9789053563854

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.4209034

LOC classification:

HN49.W6 D74 1999
HV40.46 .D73 1999

Online resources:

Table of contents

Summary: "This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender. Both humanitarian and religious motives fostered the ideal of serving the well-being of individual 'others' and thereby the interest of society as a whole.With the rise of caring power, this book argues, women began to feel responsible for 'those of their own sex' and to organize themselves in all-female organizations. In the process they carved out new gender identities for themselves and the women in their care. The authors illustrate this profound historical change with the work of the reformers Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) and Josephine Butler (1828-1906) and trace their impact in Britain and the Netherlands."--Publisher description.

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Chronology of women's activism, the women's movement and feminism in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century: p. 279-282.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-260) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-278) and index.

"This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender. Both humanitarian and religious motives fostered the ideal of serving the well-being of individual 'others' and thereby the interest of society as a whole.With the rise of caring power, this book argues, women began to feel responsible for 'those of their own sex' and to organize themselves in all-female organizations. In the process they carved out new gender identities for themselves and the women in their care. The authors illustrate this profound historical change with the work of the reformers Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) and Josephine Butler (1828-1906) and trace their impact in Britain and the Netherlands."--Publisher description.

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