Bluestocking - Wikipedia Blue Stocking was an “unabashedly feminist" (its tagline) newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 to 1996 The radical feminist group Redstockings, founded in 1969, takes its name from bluestockings as a term to disparage intellectual women, and red for its association with the revolutionary left
What Are Bluestockings? The Movement, Origins, and Insult A “bluestocking” generally refers to an educated woman with intellectual, especially literary, interests, but the term has changed quite a bit over time More specifically, it can also refer to women who were members of an 18th century literary group called the Blue Stockings Society
Bluestocking | Women, Enlightenment Education | Britannica Bluestocking, any of a group of women who in mid-18th-century England held “conversations” to which they invited men of letters and members of the aristocracy with literary interests The word has come to be applied derisively to a woman who affects literary or learned interests
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Who were the Bluestockings? - Art UK Before feminism gained momentum in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was the Bluestocking Society, an eighteenth-century literary group run by aristocratic and brilliant women of the day
The Bluestockings - JSTOR Daily “Bluestocking” is a name, often used in a derogatory way, for an intellectual or literary woman But this was not the word’s original connotation The story of the first Bluestockings began in mid-1700’s Britain, when groups of women came together to discuss social and educational matters with men
Bluestocking - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com An intellectual, well-read woman was once known as a bluestocking You can describe your scholarly sister, who's knowledgeable about many subjects, as a bluestocking — no matter what color her socks are
What is a Bluestocking? – The Society for Women of Letters What on Earth is a “Bluestocking”? In mid-eighteenth-century England, a group of aristocratic women who greatly valued intellectual life held gatherings—called salons—that featured serious conversation on literature, philosophy, architecture, art, history, and current events