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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463445303321
• 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,...