1st Edition
Bodies and Lives in Victorian England Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female
158 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
158 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
158 Pages
30 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times.
With a temporal focus on women’s life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Science, Evolution, and the Female Sex; 3. Girlhood, Adolescence, and Sexuality; 4. The Good Mother and the Proper Wife: Marriage, Pregnancy, and Motherhood; 5.Matriarchs, Menopause, and Death; 6.Victorian Bodies, Modern Issues
Biography
Pamela K. Stone is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.
Lise Shapiro Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.
