The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

ISBN-13: 9780415623261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Deborah Gorham

Opis

Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing of middle-class girls, this text is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality.

Spis treści

Preface  Part 1  1. Women and Girls in the Middle-class Family: Images and Reality  2. The Victorian Middle-class Girl: An Overview  3. ‘Sunbeams’ and ‘Hoydens’: Images of Girlhood in the Victorian Period  Part 2  4. Victorian Advice about the Management of Female Childhood  5. A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body: Victorian Advice about the Management of Female Puberty  6. The Proper Young Lady: Victorian Advice about Correct Female Behaviour in Adolescence  Part 3  7. Early: Victorian Girlhood Experience  8. Mid-Victorian Girlhood Experience  9. Late-Victorian Epilogue. Conclusion

O autorze

Deborah Gorham (Author)