Suffer and be still; women in the Victorian age. / Edited by Martha Vicinus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vicinus, Martha.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain.

Women.

Great Britain.

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Midland Book edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973, 1972.

Contents:

The Victorian governess: status incongruence in family and society, by M. J. Peterson.

From dame to woman: W. S. Gilbert and theatrical transvestism, by J. W. Stedman.

Victorian women and menstruation, by E. and E. Showalter.

Marriage, redundancy, or sin: the painter's view of women in the first twenty-five years of Victoria's reign, by H. E. Roberts.

A study of Victorian prostitution and venereal disease, by E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke.

Working-class women in Britain, 1890-1914, by P. N. Stearns.

The debate over women: Ruskin vs. Mill, by K. Millett.

Stereotypes of femininity in a theory of sexual evolution, by J. Conway.

Innocent femina sensualis in unconscious conflict, by P. T. Cominos.

The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914: a select bibliography, by S. B. Kanner (p. 173-206)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

3666692