| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Bonnie S. Anderson. Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830–1860. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 288. $30.00.

Bonnie S. Anderson offers a collective biography of twenty women who lived in Belgium, France, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United States and in varying ways wrote and lectured on political, social, religious, and economic issues relating to women's liberation between 1830 and 1860. Using the theme of "Angels and Amazons," Anderson contends that what united these women was their rejection of the generally accepted view of the nineteenth-century woman as the "angel" of the household. As women who dared to be "rebels," they violated standards of acceptable female behavior and were labeled "blue-stockings," Amazons, and dangerous women; this was especially true for those who argued on behalf of gender equality. Anderson claims, too, that from the 1820s socialism, particularly Saint-Simonianism, paved the way for an international alliance among activist women. This first wave was followed by connections made through antislavery activism. Eventually, the international movement culminated in women's rights conventions held across the United States, which in turn served as a base of contact between American activists and their European counterparts until 1856. The author asserts that print culture allowed women to maintain intellectual exchanges across national boundaries, through letters, petitions, articles, and novels sharing themes of women's oppression and emancipation. . . .

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