Harriet Martineau, First Woman Sociologist

Oxford [England] ; New York: Berg ; New York: Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992. Large quarto in pale yellow boards illus in green; x, 190 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.. Minor soiling to exterior else clean and tight. Near fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 0854966455; 9780854966455; LCCN: 91-33223

Berg Women's series. Contents: Winter. The young dissenter -- Summer. The inveterate educator; The sociologist abroad; Controversial afflictions; The historian and social scientist -- Autumn. The journalist par excellence; After the harvest; A woman of principle.

This book is about the life and work of Harriet Martineau, English public educator, sociologist, historian, and journalist. "Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."—Wikipedia

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