Uneven Developments - The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England

Zusammenfassung Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Poovey, Poovey Mary
• Assisted by: Catharine R. Stimpson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1998
• EAN: 9780226675305
• ISBN: 978-0-226-67530-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice