Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America

Carol Smith-Rosenberg

This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history.

specificaties
  • Boek
  • Engels
  • Oxford University Press
  • viii, 357, [8] p: ill

praktische informatie

ISBN Nummer
0195040392
Boekcode
IHLIA Homodok cat. (smithr-c/dis) b niet uitleenbaar
Taal publicatie
eng [Engels]
Hoofdtitel
Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America
Algemene materiaalaanduiding
2 [Boek]
Eerste verantwoordelijke
Carol Smith-Rosenberg
Plaats van uitgave
New York, NY [etc.]
Uitgever
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1986
Pagina's
viii, 357, [8] p
Collatie - Illustraties
ill
Auteur Achternaam
Smith-Rosenberg
Auteur Voornaam
Carol
Prod country
usa
Samenvatting - Tekst
This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history.
Opmerkingen - Tekst
Contents: Hearing women's words: a feminist reconstruction of history -- The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America -- Bourgeois discourse and the age of Jackson: an introduction -- Davy Crockett as trickster: pornography, liminality, and symbolic inversion in Victorian America -- Beauty, the beast, and the militant woman: a case study in sex roles and social stress in Jacksonian America -- The cross and the pedestal: women, anti-ritualism, and the emergence of the American Bourgeoisie -- Bourgeois discourse and the progressive era: an introduction -- Puberty to menopause: the cycle of femininity in nineteenth-century America -- The hysterical woman: sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century America -- The abortion movement and the AMA, 1850-1880 -- The new woman as androgyne: social disorder and gender crisis, 1870-1936

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