Bodies and Lives in Victorian England: Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female: Bodies and Lives
Autor Pamela K. Stone, Lise Shapiro Sandersen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2022
With a temporal focus on women’s life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing on osteological sources, medical discourses, and examples from the literature and cultural history of the period, alongside social and environmental data derived from ethnographic and archival investigations, the authors explore the experience of being female in the Victorian era for women across classes. In synthesizing current research on demographic statistics, maternal morbidity and mortality, and bioarchaeological evidence on patterns of aging and death, they analyze how changing social ideals, cultural and environmental variability, shifting economies, and evolving medical and scientific understanding about the body combined to shape female health and identity in the nineteenth century. Victorian women faced a variety of challenges, including changing attitudes regarding appropriate behavior, social roles, and beauty standards, while grappling with new understandings of the role played by gender and sexuality in shaping women’s lives from youth to old age.
The book concludes by considering the relevance of how Victorian narratives of womanhood and the experience of being female have influenced perceptions of female health and cultural constructions of identity today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367555313
ISBN-10: 036755531X
Pagini: 158
Ilustrații: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Bodies and Lives
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 036755531X
Pagini: 158
Ilustrații: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Bodies and Lives
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. Introduction; 2. Science, Evolution, and the Female Sex; 3. Girlhood, Adolescence, and Sexuality; 4. The Good Mother and the Proper Wife: Marriage, Pregnancy, and Motherhood; 5.Matriarchs, Menopause, and Death; 6.Victorian Bodies, Modern Issues
Notă biografică
Pamela K. Stone is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.
Lise Shapiro Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.
Lise Shapiro Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA.
Descriere
This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times.