ISBN:
9780226675312
,
9780226675299
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Women in Culture and Society
Parallel Title:
Poovey, Mary Uneven developments
DDC:
305.30942
Keywords:
19th century
;
Divorce
;
Governesses
;
Great Britain
;
History
;
Nurses
;
Women authors
;
Women authors, British
;
Women authors, English
;
Sex role in literature
;
Divorce ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
;
Governesses ; Great Britain ; Social conditions
;
Nurses ; Great Britain ; Social conditions
;
Sex role ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
;
Anesthesia in obstetrics ; History ; 19th century
;
Women authors, British ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Frau
;
England
;
Geschichte 1837-1901
;
Großbritannien
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 1837-1901
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
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