I.          Women:  Continuation of Radicalism = the doorway to feminism.

  1. Intellectual ideas of the Enlightenment.
  2. Olympia de Gouge.
  3. Class options.
  4. Why this appeals to the middle classes, why it's an offshoot of radicalism.
  5. Changes on the professional, personal, academic, domestic, sexual, political and intellectual levels.
  6. Options available by class:
    1. Wealthy: Marriage, family, running households.  PRIVATE SPHERES.  Charity and reform work.  Religious career.
    2. Middle class:  Nursing, teaching (beyond the family), clerical.
    3. Poor:  Urban or rural labor; unskilled work; domestic; production; prostitution.
  7. Reform work opens the door to organization of Internat'l Congress of Women, which provides a forum of expression, an outlet for politicization.
  8. Socialist/radicals target labor unions.
  9. Conflict:  Split movement: Emphasis on social reform vs. suffrage.
  10. Emmaline Pankhurst - daughters Christabel and Sylvia (perfect example of #I above).
  11. Queen Victoria.
  12. Florence Nightingale (most highly honored woman in the British Empire, never received a paycheck for her work!)
  13. 1903 Women's Social and Political Union -- the coming together of all these ideas, where anarchism meets feminism.
  14. Civil disobedience:  Emmeline Pankhurst and Constance Lytton.