Hidden Hands

Working-class Women and Victorian Social-problem Fiction

Autor: Patrica E. Johnson

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A revealing look at the representations of women in Victorian fiction Tracing the Victorian crisis o...

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Autor

Patrica E. Johnson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2001

Pagini

240

EAN

9780821413890

ISBN

0821413899

Enbook ID

04935294

Editura

Ohio University Press

Greutate

390

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 15

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A revealing look at the representations of women in Victorian fiction Tracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because it exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities. Drawing on the recent work of feminist historians, Patricia Johnson lays the groundwork for a rein terpretation of Victorian social-problem fiction that highlights its treatment of issues that particularly affected working-class women: sexual harassment; the interconnections between domestic ideology and domestic violence; their relationships to male-dominated working-class movements such as Luddism, Chartism, and unionism; and their troubled connection to middle-class feminism. Uncovering a series of images in Victorian fiction, ranging from hot-tempered servants and sexually-harassed factory girls to working-class homemakers pictured as beaten dogs, Hidden Hands demonstrates that representations of working-class women, however marginalized or incoherent, reveal the very contradictions they are constructed to hide and that the dynamics of these representations have broad implications both for other groups, such as middle-class women, and for the emergence of working-class women as writers themselves.

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