A Victorian Woman's Place
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A Victorian Woman's Place

Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Victorian Woman's Place

Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century

About this book

While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as 'angels in the house' isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance. By drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argues that women actually played an important role in the formation of the public identity of the Victorian middle class. Through their support for cultural and philanthropic associations and their engagement in political campaigns, women developed a nascent civic identity, which for some informed their later demands for political rights. "Middle Class Women and Victorian Public Culture" offers numerous insights for the reader into the public lives of women in this fascinating period.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781845112103
eBook ISBN
9780857717733
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Introduction: Class, Women and the 'Public Sphere'
  7. 2. The Middle Class and the Development of a 'Public Sphere'
  8. 3. Women's Education: Woman's Place
  9. 4. Women and Cultural Citizenship
  10. 5. Women and Philanthropy I: The 'Civilizing Mission' and Class Identity
  11. 6. Women and Philanthropy II: Women's Committees and Gender Conflict
  12. 7. 'Not Perfectly Proper': Women and Politics
  13. 8. Civic Landscape and Ritual
  14. 9. Conclusion: Women's Citizenship and the Emergence of a Women's Movement
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index