Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Unsexed Mind and Psychological Androgyny, 1790-1848: Radicalism, Reform and Gender in England: Genders and Sexualities in History

Autor Victoria F. Russell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 2022
This book explores a significant lacuna in British history. Between the 1790s and the 1840s, the concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind emerged as a notion of psychosexual equality, promoted by a small though influential network of heterodox radicals on the margins of Rational Dissent. Deeply concerned with the growing segregation of the sexes, supported seemingly by arbitrary and increasingly binary models of sexual difference, heterodox radicals insisted that while the body might be sexed, the mind was not. They argued that society and the prejudicial masculinist institutions of patriarchy should be reformed to accommodate and protect what one radical described as an ‘infinitely varied humanity’. In placing the concept of psychological androgyny centre stage, this book offers a substantial revision to understandings of progressive debates on gender in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century in Britain. 
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 70827 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Springer International Publishing – 20 dec 2022 70827 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 71324 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Springer International Publishing – 19 dec 2021 71324 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria Genders and Sexualities in History

Preț: 70827 lei

Preț vechi: 86374 lei
-18% Nou

Puncte Express: 1062

Preț estimativ în valută:
13556 14091$ 11229£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 04-18 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030881184
ISBN-10: 3030881180
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: XI, 240 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Genders and Sexualities in History

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1. Psychological Androgyny - Uncovering a Radical Concept.- Chapter 2. Androgyny: Reception and Evolution of a Concept.- Chapter 3. German Interdisciplinary Learning and the English Concept of Androgyny.- Chapter 4. Education: Cultivating the Androgynous Mind.- Chapter 5. Androgyny: The Marriage of Equals.- Chapter 6. Political Reform and the Decline of Androgyny.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Victoria F. Russell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Keele University, UK.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book seeks to redefine the radical debate on gender in England between the 1790s and 1840s, examining the little-studied concept of psychological androgyny or the unsexed mind. Perceived often as a literary and aesthetic motif popular in Romantic poetry, this book examines the revival and use of this egalitarian concept on the radical margins of Protestant non-conformism. Inspired by an ethos of perfectibility, a close-knit community of writers, educationalists, ministers, and scientists, called for a revolution in the human mind. German-led advances in science pointed not to essential sexed differences but to naturally occurring androgynies, encouraging renewed interest in ancient mythical and biblical tales of androgyny. New practices were introduced into private homes and classrooms. Gender-neutral curriculums and texts books, mixed-sex classrooms, the promotion of androgynous domesticity and the rejection of female vows of obedience, were just a few practices designed to undermine arbitrary and discriminatory cultures of patriarchy. Victoria F. Russell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Keele University, UK.

Caracteristici

Explores a significant lacuna in British history between the 1790s and the 1840s Offers a substantial revision to understandings of progressive debates on gender Uniquely focuses directly on the concept of the unsexed mind in contemporary discourse