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Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898
By (Author) Anita Levy
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
820.93522
Hardback
186
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
425g
In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "common sense" and "laws of nature." Joining an emergent tradition of cultural historians who draw on Gramsci and Foucault, she shows how middle-class hegemony in the nineteenth century depended on notions of gender to legitimize a cult