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Uneven Developments The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England

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ISBN-10: 0226675300

ISBN-13: 9780226675305

Edition: 1988

Authors: Mary Poovey

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Mary Poovey'sThe Proper Lady and the Woman Writerhas become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. InUneven DevelopmentsPoovey turns to broader historical concerns in an analysis of how notions of gender shape ideology. Asserting that the organization of sexual difference is a social, not natural, phenomenon, Poovey shows how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in mid-Victorian culture. She then reveals the role of this opposition in various discourses and institutions—medical, legal, moral, and literary. The resulting oppositions, partly because they depended on the subordination of one term to another, were always unstable. Poovey contends that this…    
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Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 289
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.122

Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and professor of English at New York University. Her two most recent books, A History of the Modern Fact and Genres of the Credit Economy, examine the emergence of the modern disciplines. Her history of the modern financial model, co-authored with Kevin R. Brine, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.