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Giving Women - Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (Paperback)
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Giving Women - Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (Paperback)
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Altruism and self-assertiveness went hand in hand for Victorian
women. During a period when most lacked property rights and
professional opportunities, gift transactions allowed them to enter
into economic negotiations of power as volatile and potentially
profitable as those within the market systems that so frequently
excluded or exploited them. They made presents of holiday books and
homemade jams, transformed inheritances into intimate and
aggressive bequests, and, in both prose and practice, offered up
their own bodies in sacrifice. Far more than selfless acts of
charity or sure signs of their suitability for marriage, such gifts
radically reconstructed women's personal relationships and public
activism in the nineteenth century. Giving Women examines the
literary expression and cultural consequences of English women's
giving from the 1820s to the First World War. Attending to the
dynamic action and reaction of gift exchange in fiction and poetry
by Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell,
and Christina Rossetti as well as in literary annuals, Salvation
Army periodicals, and political pamphlets, Rappoport demonstrates
how female authors and fictional protagonists alike mobilized
networks outside of marriage and the market. Through giving, women
redefined the primary allegiances of their everyday lives, forged
public coalitions, and advanced campaigns for abolition, slum
reform, eugenics, and suffrage.
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