ISBN:
9781400830855
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1400830850
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 356 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Marcus, Sharon, 1966- Between women
DDC:
306.848094209034
Keywords:
Women History
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England
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Women Social networks
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England
;
Lesbians History
;
England
;
Female friendship England
;
Femmes Histoire
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Angleterre
;
Groupes de femmes Angleterre
;
Lesbiennes Histoire
;
Angleterre
;
Amitié féminine Angleterre
;
Femmes dans la littérature England
;
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
;
Women in literature
;
Women Social networks
;
Lesbians History
;
Female friendship
;
Women History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; Gay & Lesbian
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Vrouwen
;
Vriendschap
;
Seksualiteit
;
Huwelijk
;
Victoriaanse tijd
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Kvinnor ; historia ; Storbritannien
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Kvinnor ; sociala nätverk ; historia ; Storbritannien
;
Lesbiska kvinnor ; historia ; Storbritannien
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Kvinnlig vänskap ; Storbritannien
;
Kvinnor i litteraturen
;
Female friendship
;
Lesbians
;
Women in literature
;
Women
;
Women ; Social networks
;
History
;
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
;
England
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.--From publisher description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-346) and index. - Print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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