Harriet Martineau

(noun)

Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.

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  • Early Social Research and Martineau

    • Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
    • Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist .
    • Although today Martineau is rarely mentioned, she was critical to the early growth of the sociological discipline.
    • As early as 1831, Martineau wrote on the subject of "Political Economy" (as the field of economics was then known).
    • Harriet Martineau introduced Comte to the English-speaking world by translating his works.

  • Feminist Theory

    • Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.

  • Bibliography

    • Friedmann, Harriet. 1988.