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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... question of difference is never a neutral one : it is always a question of better or worse , superior or inferior . To say that the sexes are basically similar , but that women are inferior men , is different from saying that the sexes ...
... question of difference is never a neutral one : it is always a question of better or worse , superior or inferior . To say that the sexes are basically similar , but that women are inferior men , is different from saying that the sexes ...
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... question of female desire and how that question was currently being treated in medical and social scientific representations linking passionlessness and prostitution . The question is not whether Mrs Gaskell has ' given in ' to the ...
... question of female desire and how that question was currently being treated in medical and social scientific representations linking passionlessness and prostitution . The question is not whether Mrs Gaskell has ' given in ' to the ...
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... question of women's work , he soon finds that the economic knots are too difficult for him to untie : It is sad to think that certain branches of our commercial greatness depend on what is truly a social evil . The family of the ...
... question of women's work , he soon finds that the economic knots are too difficult for him to untie : It is sad to think that certain branches of our commercial greatness depend on what is truly a social evil . The family of the ...
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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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