Question

How does Christine Stansell establish the context for the beginning of the women's movement?

Answer 1

Christine Stansell writes about well-known women leaders, their qualities and charisma, their success and failures. The emergence of the ‘new woman’ in the beginning of the 20th century, voting right for women, radical feminism and women’s fight for gender equality, all of it pointing towards a total women’s movement.

Christine Stansell (born 1949) mainly wrote about women’s history and gender issues, human rights and cultural history. She was a lecturer at the University of Chicago, until 2007.