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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Poovey, Mary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
Temas:
1800-1899
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Anesthesia in obstetrics > History > 19th century.
Divorce > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women authors, English > Social conditions.
Governesses > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Nurses > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Sex role in literature.
Women authors > Social conditions.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Anesthésie en obstétrique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Divorce > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrivaines > Conditions sociales.
Gouvernantes > Conditions sociales.
Infirmières > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Écrivaines anglaises > Conditions sociales.
Gouvernantes > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
Infirmières > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Women authors > Social conditions
Anesthesia in obstetrics
Divorce
Nurses > Social conditions
Sex role
Sex role in literature
Women authors, English > Social conditions
Sekseverschillen.
Werkende vrouwen.
Great Britain
gender, women, separate spheres, profession, independence, career, social roles, feminist theory, feminism, law, legal, florence nightingale, domesticity, jane eyre, governess, class, mobility, family, wealth, education, professional writer, david copperfield, heroism, masculinity, marketplace, capitalism, matrimonial causes act, caroline norton, coverture, divorce, infidelity, history, nonfiction, politics, victorian, doctors, control, power, hierarchy, patriarchy, midwives, female body.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The Ideological Work of Gender; 2 Scenes of Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women; 3 Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act; 4 The Man-of-Letteres Hero: David Copperfield and the Professional Writer; 5 The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre; 6 A Housewifely Woman: The Social Construction of Florence Nightingale; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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