Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and MaternityManchester University Press, 1995 - Всего страниц: 280 Jill Matus uses bio-medical, social scientific and literary texts to interrogate Victorian concepts of sexual difference. Departing from the usual critical focus on Victorian conceptions of the sexes as incommensurably different, she emphasises the powerful effects in Victorian culture of notions of sexual instability and approximation. While ideas about mutable or ambiguous sexuality provoked fear and fascination, they also served Victorian middle-class ideology by offering 'scientific' ways of constructing racial, class and national identity in terms of the body. Throughout this period fierce public debates raged around prostitution, infanticide, working-class sexuality, female reproduction and domesticity. Drawing on works by Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Brontes, Matus explores the dialogue between literary and other discourses of sexuality. Unstable bodies will be an essential reference work for students and scholars working in Victorian literary and cultural studies, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. |
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... cultural construct . ' Gender is not to culture as sex is to nature ; gender is also the discursive / cultural means by which " sexed nature " or a " natural sex " is produced and established as " pre- discursive " . " " The distinction ...
... cultural construct . ' Gender is not to culture as sex is to nature ; gender is also the discursive / cultural means by which " sexed nature " or a " natural sex " is produced and established as " pre- discursive " . " " The distinction ...
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... cultural construct with a history has proved enabling for studies such as Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction or Anita Levy's Other Women , both these works claim a cultural agency for various discourses that does not take ...
... cultural construct with a history has proved enabling for studies such as Nancy Armstrong's Desire and Domestic Fiction or Anita Levy's Other Women , both these works claim a cultural agency for various discourses that does not take ...
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... cultural imperative . Ornella Moscucci's history of gynaecology , The Science of Woman , pays greater attention to the question of sexual kinship in Victorian medical literature , pointing to the Victorian interest in herma- phroditism ...
... cultural imperative . Ornella Moscucci's history of gynaecology , The Science of Woman , pays greater attention to the question of sexual kinship in Victorian medical literature , pointing to the Victorian interest in herma- phroditism ...
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Acknowledgements page | 1 |
Chapter one Sexual slippage and approximation | 21 |
Chapter three Confession secrecy and exhibition | 89 |
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