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

by Mary Poovey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675300
• ISBN13: 9780226675305
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"