Suffer and be still :

Vicinus, Martha.

Suffer and be still : women in the Victorian age / edited by Martha Vicinus. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973, c1972. - xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"First Midland book edition."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Victorian governess: status incongruence in family and society, by M. J. Peterson.--From dame to woman: W. S. Gilbert and theatrical transvestism, by J. W. Stedman.--Victorian women and menstruation, by E. and E. Showalter.--Marriage, redundancy, or sin: the painter's view of women in the first twenty-five years of Victoria's reign, by H. E. Roberts.--A study of Victorian prostitution and venereal disease, by E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke.--Working-class women in Britain, 1890-1914, by P. N. Stearns.--The debate over women: Ruskin vs. Mill, by K. Millett.--Stereotypes of femininity in a theory of sexual evolution, by J. Conway.--Innocent femina sensualis in unconscious conflict, by P. T. Cominos.--The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914: a select bibliography, by S. B. Kanner (p. 173-206)

0253355729 (cloth) 0253201683 (pbk)

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Women--Great Britain.
Women--Social conditions.--Great Britain

HQ1596 / .V5 1972

301.41/2/0942