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22%OFFMary Poovey - Uneven Developments - 9780226675305 - V9780226675305
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Uneven Developments

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Description for Uneven Developments Paperback. 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. Series: Women in Culture & Society S. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Mary Poovey's The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer has become a standard text in feminist literary discourse. In Uneven Developments Poovey 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Women in Culture & Society S.
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226675305
SKU
V9780226675305
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