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Book Review
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 18301860. By Bonnie S. Anderson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiv, 288 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-512623-8.)
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In Joyous Greetings, Bonnie S. Anderson, an American scholar who specializes in British history, successfully integrates the histories of early women's rights movements in the United States, Germany, Britain, and France in order to demonstrate that, as early as the 1840s, women in Europe and America had succeeded in creating for themselves a loosely knit network of like-minded reformers determined to support one another in their attempts to challenge "the traditional view that women's subordination was natural, God-given, and universal." |
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