Between Women Friendship Desire and Marriage in Victorian England 1st Edition by Sharon Marcus ISBN 978-0691128351 0691128359
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ISBN 10: 0691128359
ISBN 13: 978-0691128351
Author: Sharon Marcus
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other’s hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.
Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality–not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1 Friendship and the Play of the System
CHAPTER 2 Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot
CHAPTER 3 Dressing Up and Dressing Down: The Feminine Plaything
CHAPTER 4 The Female Accessory in Great Expectations
CHAPTER 5 The Genealogy of Marriage
CHAPTER 6 Contracting Female Marriage in Can You Forgive Her?
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