Suffer and be Still; Women in the Victorian AgeMartha Vicinus The ten essays in this volume discuss the psychological, biological, sociological, and literary attitudes toward women in the Victorian period. |
Contents
The Victorian Governess Status Incongruence | 3 |
From Dame to Woman W S Gilbert | 20 |
Victorian Women and Menstruation | 38 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals): Women in the Victorian Age Martha Vicinus No preview available - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
Acton Acts attitudes biological British burlesque cent character comic conflict conscience Contagious Diseases Acts contemporary dame daughters domestic Eastlake economic Emigration emotional employment England English evolution Evolution of Sex factory feelings female Femina Sensualis feminine Frances Power Cobbe Geddes Geddes's genteel Gilbert girls governess governess's heroine History Homo Economicus human husband ideal industrial innocence instinct Jane Katisha labor lady less living London male marriage married women menstruation middle middle-class Mill Mill's moral mother nature nineteenth century painters painting passion period played political poor position poverty principal boys problem prostitution Queen question Redgrave relations repression respectable Review role romantic Royal Academy Ruskin seduction sentiment Sewell sexual social society status Suffrage suggests temperaments textile tion traditional transvestism venereal disease Victorian W. R. Greg W. S. Gilbert wife wives woman womanly Women's Suffrage workers working-class women young
References to this book
From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology Expanded Lawrence E. Cahoone No preview available - 2003 |