| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) |
| Series |
Women in culture and society |
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Women in culture and society.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-273) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Anesthesia in obstetrics -- History -- 19th century
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Divorce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Women authors, English -- Social conditions
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Governesses -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Nurses -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Sex role in literature.
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Women authors -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Women authors -- Social conditions
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Anesthesia in obstetrics
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Divorce
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Nurses -- Social conditions
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Sex role
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Sex role in literature
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Women authors, English -- Social conditions
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Sekseverschillen.
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Werkende vrouwen.
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226675312 |
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0226675319 |
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9786612070112 |
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6612070110 |
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1282070118 |
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9781282070110 |
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