About this title: The author undertakes an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual differences is a social, not natural phenomenon, and that beneath the smooth veneer of Victorian society lay disturbing contradictions and inconsistencies, she focuses on the ways in which representations of gender were simultaneously, but unevenly, constructed, deployed and contested in five major institutions. In medicine, where controversy raged over the use of anaesthesia in childbirth; in law and the wrangle over the first divorce legislation; in literature and the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780226675305ISBN:0226675300
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1988-12-15
ISBN-13:9780226675305ISBN:0226675300
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780226675305ISBN:0226675300
Description: New. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. read more
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