In the years following the Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics created a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior. This has been seen as the first stirrings of a middle-class ideology, opposed to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women, but u…
"Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, "Women of Quality" examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years following the Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other s…
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, 'Women of Quality' examines the role of gender in arist…
In the years following the Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics created a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior. This has been seen as the first stirrings of a middle-class ideology, opposed to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women, but u…