Between Women
Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
Marcus, Sharon
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.--From publisher description.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0691128359
Dewey Decimal: 306.84/8094209034
Library of Congress: 2006020026
Book Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 356
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