LEADER 04881nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910811965903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612070112 010 $a1-282-07011-8 010 $a0-226-67531-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226675312 035 $a(CKB)1000000000725349 035 $a(EBL)432278 035 $a(OCoLC)367863022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000264901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000264901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10290468 035 $a(PQKB)10546781 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432278 035 $a(DE-B1597)535657 035 $a(OCoLC)1135579840 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226675312 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286151 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207011 035 $a(dli)HEB01744 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009749879 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000725349 100 $a19890227d1988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUneven developments $ethe ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England /$fMary Poovey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc1988 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-67530-0 311 0 $a0-226-67529-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Ideological Work of Gender --$tCHAPTER TWO. Scenes of an Indelicate Character: The Medical Treatment of Victorian Women --$tCHAPTER THREE. Covered but Not Bound: Caroline Norton and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act --$tCHAPTER FOUR. The Man-of-Letters Hero David Copperfield and the Professional Writer --$tCHAPTER FIVE. The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre --$tCHAPTER SIX. A Housewifely Woman: The Social Construction of Florence Nightingale --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions-medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this instability helps explain why various institutional versions of binary logic developed unevenly. This unevenness, in turn, helped to account for the emergence in the 1850's of a genuine oppositional voice: the voice of an organized, politicized feminist movement. Drawing on a wide range of sources-parliamentary debates, novels, medical lectures, feminist analyses of work, middle-class periodicals on demesticity-Poovey examines various controversies that provide glimpses of the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously constructed, deployed, and contested. These include debates about the use of chloroform in childbirth, the first divorce law, the professional status of writers, the plight of governesses, and the nature of the nursing corps. Uneven Developments is a contribution to the feminist analysis of culture and ideology that challenges the isolation of literary texts from other kinds of writing and the isolation of women's issues from economic and political histories. 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aSex role$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAnesthesia in obstetrics$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aDivorce$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen authors, British$xSocial conditions 606 $aGovernesses$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions 606 $aNurses$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions 606 $aSex role in literature 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aAnesthesia in obstetrics$xHistory 615 0$aDivorce$xHistory 615 0$aWomen authors, British$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aGovernesses$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aNurses$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a305.3/0942 700 $aPoovey$b Mary$0149338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811965903321 996 $aUneven developments$91380750 997 $aUNINA