Encyclopedia articles gives background on movement, features movement in France, Germany England and the United States. Cross-references to political aspects. (
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"In 1812 [Wheeler] left her drunken husband and later arrived in France where she met with French socialists and supporters of women's emancipation. For twenty years she traveled backwards and forwards between France, England and Ireland, providing an important link for radical groups." (
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/SHE8.htm#Wheeler
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The site looks at the "three major strands of radical social theory: Liberalism, Utilitarianism and Socialism, how they relate to the analysis of society and, in particular, to the relation between classes and genders in a society." Four thinkers and activists from the early Nineteenth Century are featured. (
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/SHE8.htm
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