Fixing Patriarchy

Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists

D Hall author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:3rd Oct '96

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Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and systems of belief.

ISBN: 9780333655788

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 364g

236 pages