Uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism.

‘Infidel Feminism‘ is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement.

Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women’s movement.

In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women’s movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century.