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Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals): Women in the Victorian Age book cover

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Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) Women in the Victorian Age

Edited By Martha Vicinus Copyright 1972
256 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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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. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption and worship of the family hearth. Indeed, this... Read more

Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady Martha Vicinus  1. The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society M. Jeanne Peterson  2. From Dame to Woman: W. S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism Jane W. Stedman  3. Victorian Women and Menstruation Elaine and English Showalter  4. Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter’s View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria’s Reign Helene E. Roberts  5. A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke  6. Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914 Peter N. Stearns  7. The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill Kate Millett  8. Stereotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution Jill Conway  9. Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict Peter T. Cominos  10. The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 18-15-1914: A Select Bibliography S. Barbara Kanner;  Notes;  Index

Biography

Vicinus, Martha

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