Suffer and be still; women in the Victorian age.
By: Edited by Martha Vicinus.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
Table of contents: value: The Victorian governess: status incongruence in family and society, by M. J. Peterson.; value: From dame to woman: W. S. Gilbert and theatrical transvestism, by J. W. Stedman.; value: Victorian women and menstruation, by E. and E. Showalter.; value: Marriage, redundancy, or sin: the painter's view of women in the first twenty-five years of Victoria's reign, by H. E. Roberts.; value: A study of Victorian prostitution and venereal disease, by E. M. Sigsworth and T. J. Wyke.; value: Working-class women in Britain, 1890-1914, by P. N. Stearns.; value: The debate over women: Ruskin vs. Mill, by K. Millett.; value: Stereotypes of femininity in a theory of sexual evolution, by J. Conway.; value: Innocent femina sensualis in unconscious conflict, by P. T. Cominos.; value: The women of England in a century of social change, 1815-1914: a select bibliography, by S. B. Kanner (p. 173-206)