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Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) : Women in the Victorian Age.
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. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combina...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Collection: | Routledge revivals.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady; 1: The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society; 2: From Dame to Woman: W.S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism; 3: Victorian Women and Menstruation; 4: Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign; 5: A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease; 6: Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914; 7: The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill.
- 8: Stereotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution9: Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict; 10: The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography; Notes; Index.