A Widening Sphere (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, PDF)

Changing Roles of Victorian Women
Redaktion: Vicinus, Martha

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1977, this book is a companion volume to Suffer and Be Still. It looks at the widening sphere of women's activities in the Victorian age and testifies to the dual nature of the legal and social constraints of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135043896
• Artikelnr.: 39704981

Autorenporträt

Martha Vicinus

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Trends in the Study of the Victorian Women Martha Vicinus
1. Victorian Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Property
Law, 1857-1882 Lee Holcombe 2. The Forgotten woman of the Period: Penny
Weekly Family Magazines of the 1840s and 1850s Sally Mitchell 3. Feminism
and Female Emigration, 1861-1886 A. James Hammerton 4. The Making of an
Outcast Group: Prostitutes and Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Plymouth
and Southampton Judith Walkowitz 5. Image and Reality: The Actress and
Society Christopher Kent 6. Women and Degrees at Cambridge University,
1862-1897 Rita McWilliams-Tullberg 7. Victorian Masculinity and the Angel
in the House Carol Christ 8. Sex and Death in Victorian England: An
Examination of Age- and Sex-Specific Death Rates, 1840-1910 Sheila Ryan
Johansson 9. Sexuality in Britain, 1800-1900: Some Suggested Revisions F.
Barry Smith 10. The Women of England in a Centry of Social Change,
1815-1914: A Selected Bibliography, Part II Barbara Kanner; Notes; Index