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Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England /
Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a soci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1988.
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| Colección: | Women in culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions--medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they de. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226675312 0226675319 9786612070112 6612070110 1282070118 9781282070110 |