Sexuality and Subordination : Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780415013697 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 260 str.

Jane Rendall; Susan Mendus

Opis

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of women's s tudies, history and literature.

Recenzje

'Certainly to be recommended to social historians of the nineteenth century.' - Social History Society Newsletter

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION PART I REPRESENTATIONS OF SEXUALITY 1 BALZAC’S A DAUGHTER OF EVE AND THE APPLE OF KNOWLEDGE 2 THE LADY OF SHALOTT IN ART AND LITERATURE 3 ‘SEX’ AND ‘RACE’: THE CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE AND IMAGE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY PART II SEXUALITY, SUBORDINATION, AND FEMINISM 4 FRIENDSHIP AND POLITICS: BARBARA LEIGH SMITH BODICHON (1827–91) AND BESSIE RAYNER PARKES (1829–1925) 5 THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS: THE IDEAL OF MARRIAGE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN STUART MILL 6 WOMEN’S BIOLOGICAL STRAITJACKET 7 PRIVILEGE AND PATRIARCHY: FEMINIST THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; POSTSCRIPT

O autorze

Susan Mendus, Jane Rendall