"Our Lady of Victorian Feminism" is about three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women. In the field of Victorian studies, few scholars have looked beyond the customary identification of the Christian Madonna with the Victorian feminine ideal the domestic Madonna or the Angel in the House. Kimberly VanEsveld Adams shows, however, that these three Victorian writers made extensive use of the Madonna in feminist arguments. They were...
"Our Lady of Victorian Feminism" is about three nineteenth-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and...
Our Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three 19th-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women.
Our Lady of Victorian Feminism is about three 19th-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucial...