Pamela K Stone, Lise Shapiro Sanders

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780367026110
• ISBN-10: 0367026112
• Artikelnr.: 60022896

Autorenporträt

Pamela K. Stone is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA. Lise Shapiro Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Science
Evolution
and the Female Sex; 3. Girlhood
Adolescence
and Sexuality; 4. The Good Mother and the Proper Wife: Marriage
Pregnancy
and Motherhood; 5.Matriarchs
Menopause
and Death; 6.Victorian Bodies
Modern Issues