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Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Uneven Developments The Ideological Work of Gender in MidVictorian England - Women in Culture and Society Series
Author: Mary Poovey
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. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions—medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226675299
ISBN-10: 0226675297
Publication Date: 10/1988
Pages: 282
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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