Sarah Williams

When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Millicent Fawcett, the leader of the British suffragist movement, described Josephine Butler as 'the most distinguished English woman of the nineteenth century'. Among the first feminist activists, Butler raised public awareness of the plight of destitute women, worked to address human trafficking and led a vigorous campaign to secure equal rights for women before the law. In her pursuit of justice, Butler did as much for women as William Wilberforce did for African slaves within the British Empire, and yet, while Wilberforce remains a household name, Butler is forgotten.

Social historian Sarah C. Williams presents a re-examined biography of the radical political activist Josephine Butler. From the beauty of her childhood in Northumbria, to the stifling intellectual environment of mid-Victorian Oxford; from the impoverished streets of Liverpool and the brothels of London, Brussels and Paris, to the offices of Westminster and the Houses of Parliament. Butler's relentless drive to secure rights for women against the sexual double standard of her day captures a remarkable woman with deeply held values for equality.

Underpinning Butler's public life of political activism lies the full corpus of her writing and the spirituality that grounded her activism. When Courage Calls offers a profound examination of Butler's inner life of prayer, defined by her radical sense of justice that was able to transform Victorian society. Such conviction offers us a taste of the possibility for our time and culture.

This biography presents a fresh interpretation of the relationship between Josephine Butler's public leadership, her political activism and her spirituality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399803755
• Artikelnr.: 64068696

Autorenporträt

Sarah C. Williams is a highly respected social historian. She's a specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural and religious history and has taught on Butler in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US as well as Britain. Sarah taught British and European political and cultural history at the University of Oxford; she was also a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Harris Manchester College, Lecturer at Trinity College and from 2003 Praelector at Lincoln College. In 2005 she moved to the world renown Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, where she taught the History of Christianity to graduate students from all over the world. In 2016, she moved back to the UK but remains a Research Professor at Regent and also has a collegiate attachment at the University of Oxford.