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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825186103321

Autore

Gorham Deborah

Titolo

The Victorian girl and the feminine ideal / / Deborah Gorham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24810-2

0-203-10409-9

1-283-89384-3

1-136-24811-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 19

Disciplina

305.230820942

305.4/2/0942

305.420942

Soggetti

Women - England - History - 19th century

Women - England

Girls - England - History - 19th century

Mothers and daughters - England - History - 19th century

Middle class families - England - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1982"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One; 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 Two; 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 Three; 7. Early-Victorian Girlhood Experience

8. Mid-Victorian Girlhood Experience9. Late-Victorian Epilogue; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Victorian England, the perception of girlhood arose not in isolation, but as one manifestation of the prevailing conception of femininity. Examining the assumptions that underlay the education and upbringing



of middle-class girls, this book is also a study of the learning of gender roles in theory and reality. It was originally published in 1982.The first two sections examine the image of women in the Victorian family, and the advice offered in printed sources on the rearing of daughters during the Victorian period. To illustrate the effect and evolution of feminine ideals over th