The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women's Movement.

These arguments, and the fact that Queen Victoria did not support women's rights, contributed to her diminished importance within the women's movement in the 1870s. , by Arianne Chernock; pp. xi + 249. Excellent as her discussion of feminist uses of Queen Victoria is, the most interesting and important aspect of this outstanding book is Chernock's thorough and insightful analysis of the gendering of ideas about monarchy and the state by those who opposed women's rights. [Extracted from the article]

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