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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wives and daughters."”.
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Images and perceptions of wives and daughters of the Victorian clergy
… is about Victorian women, who were either the daughters or wives of clergymen of the Church of England, placing them in the social and religious context of their time. In a group biography of three women it looks at the companionate marriage of Henrietta and Samuel Barnett, in a partnership of …
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Trophies or Treasures: The Burden of Choice for Mothers, Wives, and Daughters in <em>Washington Square</em>, <em>The Portrait of a Lady</em>, and <em>The Bostonians</em>.
… a free choice. Female characters are manipulated and diminished by a patriarchal system that not only seeks to subordinate their will, but also to objectify them, to place them on the shelf as a trophy. Fathers and husbands are typically the controlling agents, but James also presents women who …
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
This thesis looks at blatant and subversive performances in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Referencing studies of nineteenth-century performance theory, I will argue that Gaskell, aware of her contemporaries' obsession with theatricality, created works that …
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Browning the archive: troubling normative formations of South African *Indian Identity
… immigration of Indians as indentured labourers and passengers. Accordingly, *Indian women were sidelined and defined by colonial and patriarchal structures that constructed them as chaste and subservient wives and daughters. However, they were also exoticized and deemed as deviant and immoral …
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Gender and Caregiving: a Study Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Frail Elders
… also the interlocking power relations of gender and raceethnicity. For these reasons, this study addresses the following question: how does raceethnicity influence the relationship of gender and care of frail elders? Analysis of data on Hispanic (N=182) and non-Hispanic White (N=1252) frail …
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Half-finished streets, Illimitable Horizons and Enclosed Intimacy: the landscapes of Elizabeth Gaskells writing.
… in this thesis. Recollections of her early years and places visited during her writing career help to create vividly evoked, topographically secure locations, which provide the structural foundations for her narratives. The major novels, the biography of Charlotte Brontë, and several short stories …
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Free Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaican Economy and Society 1760-1834
This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain’s most important imperial holding. The colony’s slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
<p>While many scholars have written on women and marriage in nineteenth-century British history and fiction, this dissertation, The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, is the first to apply consent theory to those unions. Modern consent theory dictates …
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In Defense of Ugly Women
… for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected in the novel, and how authors respond to the issue of plainer women and issues of their …