Victorians and the Virgin Mary : religion and gender in England, 1830-85 /

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This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herringer, Carol Engelhardt (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, [2008]
Series:Gender in history.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Marie, > Sainte Vierge.
1800-1899
Feminism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > 19th century.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > 19th century.
Women in Christianity > England > History > 19th century.
Femmes dans le christianisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Mariology.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Religion.
Women in Christianity.
England > Religion > 19th century.
Angleterre > Religion > 19e siècle.
England.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Religion, gender, and the Virgin Mary
  • The Catholic Virgin Mary
  • The Protestant Virgin Mary
  • Sex, sin, and salvation : the debate over the Immaculate Conception
  • The Virgin Mary and the formation of Victorian masculinities.

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