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Disorderly conduct : visions of gender in Victorian America /
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 dra...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1986, ©1985.
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| Series: | Galaxy book
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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. - Publisher "This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies and in cultural history in general. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break loose of 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 America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Throughout 'Disorderly Conduct,' Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning." -- Back cover |
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viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-349) and index. |
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0195040392 9780195040395 |