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Suffer and be still; women in the Victorian age

Author
Vicinus, Martha.
Title
Suffer and be still; women in the Victorian age. Edited by Martha Vicinus.
Format
Book
Published
Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1972]
Description
xv, 239 p. illus. 25 cm.
Notes
Inscribed by editor to KI.
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)
Kinsey subjects
Women--United Kingdom--19th century. Status of women--United Kingdom--19th century.
Subject headings
United Kingdom.
ISBN
0253355729

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
160.44 V63s
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute