Woman Movement, The.
From Sweden
With Applications To The American And British
Suffrage Situations
[International Feminism]. Key, Ellen. The Woman Movement… Translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick, A.M. With an Introduction by Havelock Ellis. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1912].
8vo.; interior faintly, evenly sunned; discrete stamp from previous bookseller on lower front pastedown; navy blue cloth, stamped in gilt; a fresh, bright copy.
Second American edition. A compilation of articles on all aspects of international women’s suffrage; chapter titles include “The Eternal Results of the Woman Movement;” “The Inner Results of the Woman Movement;” “The Influence of the Woman Question Upon Single Women;” “The Influence of the Woman Movement Upon Men and Women in General;” “The Influence of the Woman Movement Upon Marriage;” and “The Influence of the Woman Movement Upon Motherhood.”
Key’s work was originally published in Sweden, her native land, a fact about which she seems a bit defensive in her preface:
It may be that this book will meet with some adverse criticism from English-speaking readers on the ground that the picture presented contains certain details that are not in accord with English or American conditions. I would remind these readers, however, that my remarks are applied in general to conditions on the Continent and in particular to those obtaining in Sweden, where my observations of the Woman Movement were made. I am aware that many of the facts and problems, in respect to their causes or issues, or both, have been different in England no less than in America. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that in essentials the movement is the same the world over, and for this reason the present volume may be of service to English-speaking people as a retrospective view of the great movement. (p. v)
A book interesting for its early advocacy of a global, interrelated feminism—an idea that was not at all popular at the time of the book’s publication. Although the author does not look up in any of the usual sources, the page facing the title page lists her previous works, which are significant in that they reflect her concerns: her previous books are The Century of the Child; The Education of the Child; Love and Marriage; The Woman Movement (Swedish or first edition); and, most curiously, Rahel Varnhagen, the Jewish figure who would become the fodder for another most famous feminist, Hannah Arendt.
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