Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Women in the Victorian Age
Redaktion: Vicinus, Martha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. It offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135045265
• Artikelnr.: 39703528

Autorenporträt

Vicinus, Martha

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady Martha Vicinus 1. The Victorian
Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society M. Jeanne Peterson
2. From Dame to Woman: W. S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism Jane W.
Stedman 3. Victorian Women and Menstruation Elaine and English Showalter
4. Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First
Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign Helene E. Roberts 5. A Study of
Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke
6. Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914 Peter N. Stearns 7. The Debate
over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill Kate Millett 8. Stereotypes of Femininity in a
Theory of Sexual Evolution Jill Conway 9. Innocent Femina Sensualis in
Unconscious Conflict Peter T. Cominos 10. The Women of England in a Century
of Social Change, 18-15-1914: A Select Bibliography S. Barbara Kanner;
Notes; Index