A Victorian Woman's Place : Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Morgan, Simon

Bloomsbury Academic（2020/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350175228
• DDC分類 305.42094109034

Full Description

While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance. By drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political campaigns, women developed a nascent civic identity, which for some informed their later demands for political rights. "Middle Class Women and Victorian Public Culture" offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.

Contents

List of Tables vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgement six

1. Introduction: Class, Women and the 'Public Sphere' 1
2. The Middle Class ad the Development of a Public Sphere 9
3. Women's Education; Woman's Place 35
4. Women and Cultural Citizenship 60
5. Women and Philanthropy I: The 'Civilizing Mission' and Class Identity 74
6. Women and Philanthropy II: Women's Committees and Gender Conflict 107
7. 'Not Perfectly Proper': Women and Politics 126
8. Civic Landscape and Ritual 160
9. Conclusion: Women's Citizenship and the Emergence of a Women's Movement 188

Notes 197
Bibliography 239
Index 259