Nobody's Angels - Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture

Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.

Summary

Langland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Langland
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.1995
• EAN: 9780801482205
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8220-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 442 g
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research