1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955091803321

Autore

Poovey Mary

Titolo

Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England / / Mary Poovey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1988

ISBN

9786612070112

9781282070110

1282070118

9780226675312

0226675319

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 282 pages)

Collana

Women in culture and society

Disciplina

305.3/0942

Soggetti

Sex role - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Anesthesia in obstetrics - History - 19th century

Divorce - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women authors, British - Social conditions

Governesses - Great Britain - Social conditions

Nurses - Great Britain - Social conditions

Sex role in literature

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. The Ideological Work of Gender -- CHAPTER TWO. Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women -- CHAPTER THREE. Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Man-of-Letters Hero David Copperfield and the Professional Writer -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre -- CHAPTER SIX. A Housewifely Woman: The Social Construction of Florence Nightingale -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how



notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions-medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850's of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement. Drawing on a wide range of sources-parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity-Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957719103321

Titolo

Non-state threats and future wars / / editor, Robert J. Bunker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or., : F. Cass, c2003

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : F. Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-34575-2

0-203-04586-6

1-283-83830-3

1-136-34568-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BunkerRobert J

Disciplina

355/.033

Soggetti

National security

Non-governmental organizations

Military art and science - History - 20th century

Military art and science - History - 21st century

Terrorism - Prevention

Subversive activities

Crime prevention

World politics - 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First appeared in a special issue ... of Small wars & insurgencies (ISSN 0959-2318) 13/2 (Summer 2002) published by Frank Cass"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([p. 185]-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: New Context, Smart Enemies: Phil Williams; Foreword: Netwar Observations: David F. Ronfeldt; Introduction and Strategic Overview: Epochal Change: Robert J. Bunker; Part One: Theory; The Transformation of War Revisited: Martin van Creveld; The New Warrior Class Revisited: Ralph Peters; Part Two: Non-State Threats and Case Studies; Transnational Organized Crime: Law Enforcement as a Global Battlespace: Mark Galeotti; Drug Cartels, Street Gangs, and Warlords: John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker

Private Military Companies: Mercenaries for the 21st Century: Thomas



K. AdamsNon-State Actors in Colombia: Threats to the State and to the Hemisphere: Max G. Manwaring; Kashmir, Pakistan and the War by Terror: Jasjit Singh; Part Three: Counter-OPFOR Strategies; Battlespace Dynamics, Information Warfare to Netwar, and Bond-Relationship Targeting: Robert J. Bunker; 'Cleansing Polluted Seas': Non-State Threats and the Urban Environment: Russell W. Glenn; Non-Lethal and Hyper-Lethal Weaponry: John B. Alexander and Charles 'Sid' Heal

Intelligence Preparation for Operations: Matt Begert and Dan LindsayNetworked Force Structure and C4I: John P. Sullivan; Part Four: Archives; The Structure of War: Early Fourth Epoch War Research: T. Lindsay Moore; View from the Wolves' Den: The Chechens and Urban Operations : David P. Dilegge and Matthew Van Konynenburg; Selected Bibliography; Abstracts; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation