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The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) - Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality (Hardcover)
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The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals) - Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from
various fields, from the medieval period to the present day,
discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women
in how to make themselves desirable. This collection investigates
how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the
aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an
alternative object of desire. They did so without appearing to
breed political controversy because it seemed to concern only the
female. But writing for and about women in fact became a powerful
instrument of hegemony as it introduced a whole new vocabulary for
social relations, induced certain forms of economic behaviour as
desirable in men and women respectively, and insured the
reproduction of the nuclear family. It is argued, therefore, that
the literature of conduct not only recorded but also assisted the
production of our contemporary gender-based culture.
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