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Viscountess Rhondda

 

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 : feminist writings

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Unknown

  

 : works on political science

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Unknown

  

 : works on economics

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Unknown

  

 : works on psychology

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Unknown

  

 : works in anthropology

" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, in order to understad and contextualise the position of women in society."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Unknown

  

Havelock Ellis : The Psychology of Sex

' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: even her father was not able to go straight to a shop and buy the set of volumes for himself.' "'One had to produce some kind of signed certificate from the doctor or lawer to the effect that one was a suitable person to read it. To his surprise he could not at first obtain it. I still remember his amused indignation that he was refused a book which his own daughter had already read.' " ... the Viscountess had been able to obtain it from the Cavendish Bentinck Library, the membership of which was limited to women."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : novels

"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted in preference to the Edna Lyall novels which she borrowed from the prison library ..."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Book

 

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