| Description |
xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"First Midland book edition." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Victorian governess: status incongruence in family and society, by M. J. Peterson.--From dame to woman: W. S. Gilbert and theatrical transvestism, by J. W. Stedman.--Victorian women and menstruation, by E. and E. Showalter.--Marriage, redundancy, or sin: the painter's view of women in the first twenty-five years of Victoria's reign, by H. E. Roberts.--A study of Victorian prostitution and venereal disease, by E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke.--Working-class women in Britain, 1890-1914, by P. N. Stearns.--The debate over women: Ruskin vs. Mill, by K. Millett.--Stereotypes of femininity in a theory of sexual evolution, by J. Conway.--Innocent femina sensualis in unconscious conflict, by P. T. Cominos.--The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914: a select bibliography, by S. B. Kanner (p. 173-206) |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0253201683 |
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