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Suffer and be still : women in the Victorian age / edited by Martha Vicinus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1973, c1972.Description: xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0253355729 (cloth)
  • 0253201683 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.41/2/0942
LOC classification:
  • HQ1596 .V5 1972
Contents:
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)
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Item type Current library Call number Status
Non-fiction Main Non Fiction GUG 2 Vic (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"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)