Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in Mid-Victorian England
Mary Poovey
Bok Engelsk 1988 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1988
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| Omfang | xi, 282 s.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The Ideological Work of Gender; 2 Scenes of Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women; 3 Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act; 4 The Man-of-Letteres Hero: David Copperfield and the Professional Writer; 5 The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre; 6 A Housewifely Woman: The Social Construction of Florence Nightingale ; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions-medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they de
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| ISBN | 0226675297. - 0226675300
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