Suffer and Be Still
Women in the Victorian Age
Published on 22. September 1973
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-253-20168-3 (ISBN)
Description
The ideal woman of the Victorian era was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption, and worship of the family hearth-with marriage and procreation being a woman's only function. Suffer and Be Still is a collection of ten lively essays which document the feminine stereotypes that Victorian women fought against, but only partially defeated.
Reviews / Votes
"... indispensable reading for any scholar of Victorian cultural and sexual history." -Journal of Social HistoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
ISBN-13
978-0-253-20168-3 (9780253201683)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction: The Perfect Victorian Lady
Martha Vicinus
1: The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society
M. Jeanne Peterson
2: From Dame to Woman: W.S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism
Jane W. Stedman
3: Victorian Women and Menstruation
Elaine and English Showalter
4: Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign
Helene E. Roberts
5: A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease
E.M. Sigsworth and T.J. Wyke
6: Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914
Peter N. Stearns
7: The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill
Kate Millett
8: Sterotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution
Jill Conway
9: Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict
Peter T. Cominos
10: The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography
S. Barbara Kanner
Notes
Index
Martha Vicinus
1: The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society
M. Jeanne Peterson
2: From Dame to Woman: W.S. Gilbert and Theatrical Transvestism
Jane W. Stedman
3: Victorian Women and Menstruation
Elaine and English Showalter
4: Marriage, Redundancy or Sin: The Painter's View of Women in the First Twenty-Five Years of Victoria's Reign
Helene E. Roberts
5: A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease
E.M. Sigsworth and T.J. Wyke
6: Working-Class Women in Britain, 1890-1914
Peter N. Stearns
7: The Debate over Women: Ruskin vs. Mill
Kate Millett
8: Sterotypes of Femininity in a Theory of Sexual Evolution
Jill Conway
9: Innocent Femina Sensualis in Unconscious Conflict
Peter T. Cominos
10: The Women of England in a Century of Social Change, 1815-1914: A Select Bibliography
S. Barbara Kanner
Notes
Index