...passive, and receptive.4" And as that consummate representative of Victorian culture John Ruskin wrote, "The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest," while women "must be enduringly, incorruptibly, good; instinctively, infallibly wise — wise, not...

...possessed hy the other ' , Ruskin writes, and proceeds to enumerate these separate characteristics: 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....and invention; his energy for adventure, for war.'' The woman's intellect, hy contrast, 'is not for invention or creation, hut for sweet ordering, arrangement...

...not possessed by the other', Ruskin writes, and proceeds to enumerate these separate characteristics: 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war.'7 The woman's intellect, by contrast, 'is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering,...

...from the hustle and bustle of the outside world. As John Ruskin wrote in Sesame and Lilies (1865): The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender . . . But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle - and her intellect is not for invention or...

...concisely formulating Victorian conventions of sexual difference, provides us with a useful synopsis: "The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest. . . ." Woman, predictably enough, bears a different burden: "She must be enduringly, incorruptibly,...

...writer on art and architecture. John Ruskin. encapsulated the ideal in his lecture 'Of Queens' Gardens': The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....His intellect is for speculation and invention... [Woman's intellect) is not for invention and creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision....

...insisted that the rights and responsibilities were inexorably linked and not to be considered separately. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest is necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, - and her intellect is not for invention...

...Queens' Gardens' in his classic delineation of the different 'spheres' of male and female activity: The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary." While this is an extreme formulation, it has profound implications for the psychic economy of men in...

...tot het uitkristalliseren van de 'ideologie van de twee sferen', excellent verwoord door John Ruskin: 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. [. . .] But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, - and her intellect is not for invention...

...het uitkristalliseren van de 'ideologie van de twee sferen, excellent verwoord door John Ruskin: "Ihe man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He...the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. [. . .] But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, - and her intellect is not for invention...