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

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: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.1995
• EAN: 9780801430459
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3045-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: Documents in American Social H; Reading Women Writing; Documents in American Social H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Soziale und ethische Themen, Soziale Schichten