Critical Alliances - Economics and Feminism in English Women''s Writing, 1880-1914

This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian period.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Educating New Women for Feminist Futures
2. Sisterly Kinship and the Modern Sexual Contract  
3. Cosmopolitan Communities of Female Professionals 
4. Women’s Artistic Connoisseurship and the Pleasures of a Lesbian Aesthetic
5. Virginia Woolf’s Post-Victorian Feminism
Coda: The Post-Victorian Legacy of Women’s Work
Notes
Works Cited 
Index

About the author

S. Brooke Cameron is an assistant professor in the English Department at Queen’s University.

Summary

This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian period.

Product details

• Authors: S Brooke Cameron, S. Brooke Cameron
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781442637559
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3755-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies