Suffer and be still : women in the Victorian Age / edited by Martha Vicinus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vicinus, Martha.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. It offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.</P>

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady; 1: The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society; 2: From Dame to Woman: W. S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism; 3: Victorian Women and Menstruation; 4: Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign; 5: A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease; 6: Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914; 7: The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill

8: Stereotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution9: Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict; 10: The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography; Notes; Index

Notes:

First published in 1972 by Methuen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on a print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-04526-7

0-203-45827-3

9780203458273

OCLC:

862048718