Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell

Read now or download (free!)

Choose how to read this book Url Size
Read online (web) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.html.images 120 kB
EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.epub3.images 158 kB
EPUB (older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.epub.images 157 kB
EPUB (no images, older E-readers) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.epub.noimages 105 kB
Kindle https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.kf8.images 321 kB
older Kindles https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.kindle.images 305 kB
Plain Text UTF-8 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33584.txt.utf-8 104 kB
Download HTML (zip) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33584/pg33584-h.zip 154 kB
There may be more files related to this item.

About this eBook

Author Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969
LoC No. 13007809
Title Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism
Contents The feminist movement -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Emmeline Parkhurst and Jane Addams -- Olive Schreiner and Isadora Duncan -- Beatrice Webb and Emma Goldman -- Margaret Dreier Robins -- Ellen Key -- Freewomen and Dora Marsden.
Credits Produced by Eleni, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Summary "Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism" by Floyd Dell is a collection of essays written during the early 20th century. The book explores the feminist movement through the lives and works of various prominent women, highlighting their contributions and the distinctive qualities of the modern woman's movement. It seeks to provide a critical understanding of feminism, emphasizing women's roles as builders of a new world rather than only as passive recipients of societal change. In this insightful examination, Dell presents key figures such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Isadora Duncan, discussing their varied approaches to feminism and their impact on society. He illustrates how these women challenged traditional roles, fought for labor rights, and expressed new forms of creativity and freedom. The essays delve into their philosophies and the socio-political context of their activism, portraying feminism as a multifaceted movement that extends beyond suffrage to encompass broader themes of economic independence, self-identity, and the quest for a redefined societal structure. Through these profiles, Dell argues for a recognition of women's capabilities and aspirations in shaping a more just world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
LoC Class JK: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: United States
Subject Feminism
Category Text
EBook-No. 33584
Release Date
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
Downloads 196 downloads in the last 30 days.
Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!