The Nineteenth-century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World

by Sara Delamont (Editor), Lorna Duffin (Editor)

This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12, 2012

Reviews

[Ally · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book! I’m so happy my last comps meeting featured this. It’s such an excellent collection of papers on the social structures that shaped the mind and body of the adolescent Victorian girl. Will be fundamental for me as I move forward!!!!