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‘Goddess of Reason’: Anna Doyle Wheeler, Owenism and the Rights of Women

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This article examines the resonance of Robert Owen’s ideas in the field of women’s rights with the view to determining the extent of their dissemination in transnational networks. The article focuses on the life and work of Anna Doyle Wheeler, which offers an important, though understudied, case for exploring early feminist circles, and, as she was a friend of Owen’s and one of his earliest supporters from the 1820s onwards, the impact of Owen’s ideas within these circles. The article traces Wheeler’s discovery of Owen’s system and examines how Wheeler fused Owen’s co-operative ideals with calls for women’s emancipation. It analyses her famous Appeal of One Half of the Human Race (1825), a work that urged women to engage ardently in the battle for their political and civil rights, and to join in the establishment of co-operative communities. The article concludes by examining how Wheeler attempted to articulate and put into practice these political and co-operative principles through her involvement in the English, French and Irish co-operative movements, and through her association with Désirée Véret and the contributors to the Tribune des femmes.
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halshs-03170671 , version 1 (16-03-2021)

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Ophélie Siméon. ‘Goddess of Reason’: Anna Doyle Wheeler, Owenism and the Rights of Women. History of European Ideas, 2020, pp.1-14. ⟨10.1080/01916599.2020.1798625⟩. ⟨halshs-03170671⟩
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