Silent Sisterhood : Middle-class Women in the Victorian Home.

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This perceptive book studies the Victorian woman in the home and in the family. One of the central purposes is to rescue Victorian woman from the realm of myth where her life was spent in frivolous trifles and instead to show how she had a major part to play in the practical management of the home....

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Branca, Patricia
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Collection:Routledge library editions. Women's history.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Middle class women > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Cost and standard of living > Great Britain.
Femmes de la classe moyenne > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Coût et niveau de la vie > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Cost and standard of living
Middle class
Middle class women
Great Britain
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PART I THE OUTER WOMAN; 1 The Victorian Woman
  • Off the Pedestal and into History; 2 Do's and Don'ts For the Mistress of the House; 3 The Modern Homemaker; PART II THE INNER WOMAN; 4 The Struggle For Better Health; 5 The Dynamics of Victorian Motherhood; Appendix; 6 A New Model of Child Care; 7 Middle-Class Women and Birth Control
  • A Personal Triumph; PART III CONCLUSIONS; 8 Middle-Class Women and Modernization; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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