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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463445303321

Titolo

Gender and Victorian reform [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anita Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-4438-1019-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RoseAnita

Disciplina

941.081082

Soggetti

Women - Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century

Women in public life - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; AFTERWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Gender, in the nineteenth century as now, is an integral part of identity. As a result, gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social concerns and reform. The fourteen essays in Gender and Victorian Reform address the overt and subtle ways in which gender influenced social reform in Victorian England. In addition to investigating the more readily apparent instances of gender in the areas of suffrage, women's education, and marriage law reform,...