Weathering Challenges to the Separate Sphere Ideology: The Persistence of Convention in Victorian Novels, 1850-1901
The separate sphere ideology, dominant but never hegemonic in Victorian Britain, dictated that women’s natural vocation was to be wives and mothers. Between the years 1850 to 1901, the surplus woman problem and a nascent feminist movement challenged the separate sphere ideology. It was also reinfor...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2021
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42671 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-26891 |