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Odd Women? - Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,413
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Odd Women? - Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (Hardcover): Emma Liggins

Odd Women? - Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows in British Women's Fiction, 1850s-1930s (Hardcover)

Emma Liggins

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This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s. Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as 'women of the future'. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters in British women's fiction, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book examines how women writers, including Charlotte Bronte, Elisabeth Gaskell, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair, E. H. Young, Radclyffe Hall, Winifred Holtby and Virginia Woolf, challenged dominant perceptions of singleness and lesbianism in their novels, stories and autobiographies. Drawing on advice literature, medical texts and feminist polemic, it demonstrates how these narratives responded to contemporary political controversies around the vote, women's work, sexual inversion and birth control, as well as examining the impact of the First World War. -- .

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Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Emma Liggins
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8756-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 0-7190-8756-2
Barcode: 9780719087561

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