"George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siecle London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his realist representations of urban culture testify to the significance of the city for the development of new class and gender identities, particularly fo…
"George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siecle London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his realist representations of urban culture testify to the significance of the city for the development of new class and gender identities, particularly fo…
"Tracing the Victorian literary crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 parliamentary blue book on mines and its controversial images of women at work, Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the pro…
Global factory workers and forbidden zones -- "Secret" lives of good girls : on romances, sexualities and unuttered desires -- Romance on the street : sexual banter and sexual harassment -- "Would good girls read such filth?" reading and writing sex among global factory workers …
The professionalization of farming for women in late Victorian Britain: the role and legacy of the Langham Place feminists / Karen Sayer and Nicola Verdon -- Good farms, markets, and communities: Emily Hoag and rural women's studies / Joan M. Jensen -- Professionalizing farm wom…
This book is about a fundamental aspect of the feminist project in the Philippines: rethinking the Filipino woman. It focuses on how contemporary women's organizations have represented and refashioned the Filipina in their campaigns to improve women's status by locating her in h…